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kick arse

kick arse is the alternative spelling of kick ass.

Meaning of kick ass

Verb

kick ass (third-person singular simple present kicks ass, present participle kicking ass, simple past and past participle kicked ass)

  1. (Canada, US, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar) To win decisively.
    • Did you win? We didn't just win, we kicked ass.
    Synonyms:
    kick butt
  2. (Canada, US, colloquial, idiomatic, stative, vulgar) To be very impressive.
    • The soundtrack to this film really kicks ass!
  3. (ambitransitive, informal, vulgar) To beat to a pulp; beat up
    • I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.1988, Roddy Piper, “John Nada”, in They Live

See all 4 meanings of kick ass

Forms of kick arse

third-person singular presentkicks arse
present participlekicking arse
past participlekicked arse
pastkicked arse

Questions about kick arse

What is kick arse the alternative spelling of?
Kick arse is the alternative spelling of kick ass.

Words near kick arse in the dictionary

  1. kick against the pricks
  2. kick and buck
  3. kick and bucks
  4. kick around
  5. kick arounds
  6. kick arse
  7. kick ass
  8. kick ass and take names
  9. kick at an open door
  10. kick at the can
  11. kick at the cat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kick arse (page history and authors); kick ass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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