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tear-assing

tear-assing is the present participle and gerund 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-assing

What is tear-assing the present participle and gerund of?
Tear-assing is the present participle and gerund of tear-ass.

Words near tear-assing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tear-assing (page history and authors); tear-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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