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jackass

[jak-as] / ˈdʒækˌæs /


NOUN
(vulgar) contemptible, foolish person
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An actor playing a heightened, jackass version of himself and flexing improv muscles we never knew he had?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

"Any jackass can kick over a lantern and burn down a bar. It takes a carpenter to build one - we want to be on the side of the carpenter," Roemer told Reuters.

From Reuters • Nov. 9, 2022

Mr. Fieri proceeded to make something he calls the jackass roll — rice, pork butt, fries and avocado — so named, he said, because a friend told him he looked like a jackass preparing it.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

As early as 2009, no less a master of rap beef than Barack Obama called West a jackass, a verdict the 44th president reconfirmed to The Atlantic in 2012.

From Slate • Aug. 30, 2021

He was still standing there, smiling like the most pleased jackass.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben




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