Word.ws English Dictionary

up someone's ass

up someone's ass prepositional phrase: prying into or interfering with someone's business (activities, life) so much as to be irritating or annoying to them.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (US, vulgar) Prying into or interfering with someone's business (activities, life) so much as to be irritating or annoying to them.
    • Teenager A: Where you at? Teenager B: I can't be videogaming this week. My mom is up my ass about my time management.
    • "I've always had an issue with authority so working for someone who was up my ass and micromanaging me wasn't exactly an ideal scenario for me. Let's just say, it provided a very fertile place for my anger to thrive."2014 August 28, Christine Regan Lake, Sophia’s Lovers, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 67
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: inside someone's anorectal area.
    • The airport security team discovered that he was attempting to smuggle: he had a balloon full of drugs up his ass.

Questions about up someone's ass

What does up someone's ass mean?
Up someone's ass means prying into or interfering with someone's business (activities, life) so much as to be irritating or annoying to them.
What part of speech is up someone's ass?
Up someone's ass is a prepositional phrase.

Words near up someone's ass in the dictionary

  1. up shit creek without a paddle
  2. up shit's creek
  3. up shit's creek without a paddle
  4. up so down
  5. up someone's alley
  6. up someone's ass
  7. up someone's strasse
  8. up someone's street
  9. up spirits
  10. up stairs
  11. up stick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: up someone's 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “up someone's ass.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/up_someone%27s_ass. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.