jack-ass

Noun (1)

jackass (countable and uncountable, plural jackasses)

1. (countable) A male donkey.

   Synonyms:

   he-ass, jack

2. (US, countable) A foolish or stupid person.

   Synonyms:

   jackaninny, idiot, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead

3. (US, countable) An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
   • Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make.2004 King of the Hill (TV, season 8.8)

   Synonyms:

   jerk, asshole, bastard, bitch

4. (US, slang, uncountable) A kind of bootleg liquor.
   • As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar]...Richard Mendelson, From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 82)
5. (Australia, countable, obsolete) The laughing kookaburra.

Noun (2)

jackass (plural jackasses)

1. (slang) A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

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