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tearing ass

tearing ass is the present participle and gerund of tear ass.

Meaning of tear ass

Verb

tear ass (third-person singular simple present tears ass, present participle tearing ass, simple past tore ass, past participle torn ass)

  1. (US, informal, vulgar) To move extremely quickly; to haul ass.
    • Someone's jumped bail and she thinks he might have torn ass to east Kentucky. Raylan agrees to track him down for a decent chunk of pocket money.2013 January 9, Patrick Cooper, “JUSTIFIED Episode Recap: "Hole in the Wall"”, in Collider, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2020

Questions about tearing ass

What is tearing ass the present participle and gerund of?
Tearing ass is the present participle and gerund of tear ass.

Words near tearing ass in the dictionary

  1. teariness
  2. tearing
  3. tearing a cat
  4. tearing along
  5. tearing apart
  6. tearing ass
  7. tearing at
  8. tearing away
  9. tearing down
  10. tearing into
  11. tearing it up

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