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tore ass

tore ass is the simple past 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

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What is tore ass the simple past of?
Tore ass is the simple past of tear ass.

Words near tore ass in the dictionary

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

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