tear-ass

Verb

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

1. (US, informal, vulgar) To move extremely quickly; to rush.
   • Kittenplan tells Ingersoll to write his congressman about it and over LaMont Chu’s pleas for reasoned discussion takes several more theoretically valuable warheads out of the industrial-solvent bucket and gets truly serious about hitting Ingersoll, moving steadily east across Nigeria and Chad...1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 339
   • If this were New York City, we'd have jumped in a cab and tear-assed down the Grand Central Parkway straight to JFK. But there aren't a lot of high-speed getaway options in Venice. A gondola would have been romantic but not too smart.2011, James Patterson, Marshall Karp, Kill Me if You Can: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 237

   Synonyms:

   tear ass, fly, scramble, get a move on, hasten, haul, hurtle, bustle, haul ass, haul one's ashes