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quarter-ass

quarter-ass verb: to perform a task very incompletely or carelessly, to a more extreme degree than half-assing.

Verb

quarter-ass (third-person singular simple present quarter-asses, present participle quarter-assing, simple past and past participle quarter-assed)

  1. (humorous, slang, vulgar) To perform a task very incompletely or carelessly, to a more extreme degree than half-assing.

Forms of quarter-ass

third-person singular presentquarter-asses
present participlequarter-assing
past participlequarter-assed
pastquarter-assed

Questions about quarter-ass

What does quarter-ass mean?
Quarter-ass means to perform a task very incompletely or carelessly, to a more extreme degree than half-assing.
What part of speech is quarter-ass?
Quarter-ass is a verb.
What is the past tense of quarter-ass?
The past tense of quarter-ass is quarter-assed.

Words near quarter-ass in the dictionary

  1. quarter waiters
  2. quarter water
  3. quarter waters
  4. quarter window
  5. quarter windows
  6. quarter-ass
  7. quarter-assed
  8. quarter-asses
  9. quarter-assing
  10. quarter-bloke
  11. quarter-blokes

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