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tear-assed

tear-assed is the simple past and past participle of tear-ass.

Meaning of 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

Questions about tear-assed

What is tear-assed the simple past and past participle of?
Tear-assed is the simple past and past participle of tear-ass.

Words near tear-assed in the dictionary

  1. tear to shreds
  2. tear up
  3. tear up the dance floor
  4. tear up the pea patch
  5. tear-ass
  6. tear-assed
  7. tear-asses
  8. tear-assing
  9. tear-brimmed
  10. tear-cat
  11. tear-cats

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