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jackass

[jak-as] / ˈdʒækˌæs /


NOUN
(vulgar) contemptible, foolish person
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He also interviewed the notorious mid-2000s internet jackass Tucker Max, whom Carlson inaccurately described as being a “beautiful prose stylist.”

From Slate • May 17, 2024

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

“Me and her kept up after my husband left me. August was the only one of his family who knew what a sorry jackass he was.”

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd




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