ass

as in donkey
a sturdy and patient domestic mammal that is used especially to carry things the farm kept a few asses for hauling hay in and out of the field

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Recent Examples of ass This guy has a chance, and he's been working his ass off. Isabella Murray, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2024 When millennial women got informed that the proper pant silhouette of the twenty-tens, the high waist—which truncated the torso, elongated the leg, and made of every ass a pear—was on the way out, with low-rise making its incursion again, there was a lot of real anger. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024 The trousers had to be tailored for that ass to fit. Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2024 There was no actor on that set whose head was up their own ass. Stacy Lambe, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ass 

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“Ass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ass. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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