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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

Other candidates included Smokey the Rooster and Higgins the jackass.

From Slate Nov. 4, 2020

I needed them to leave so I wouldn't have to keep smiling and nodding like a jackass, which I knew I was going to have to do—but for how long?

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

“Unfortunately I’m really good at playing jackasses of one kind or another,” he told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.

From Washington Post Feb. 6, 2023

“Before I came down with the virus, I was one of those jackasses who thought the virus would disappear the day after the election. I was one of those conspiracy theorists,” he said.

From Seattle Times Mar. 9, 2021

To be clear, I'm glad the police didn't do anything to the jackasses who showed up to protest the lockdowns.

From Salon May 27, 2020

“People love watching jackasses doing stupid things!” yells the chief executive of a certain huge video-sharing company.

From New York Times Jul. 23, 2015

If it came up heads, it simply meant that the three men would have to line up in a row and make jackasses of themselves once again in front of the live television cameras.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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