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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

“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

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

From New York Times Feb. 5, 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

And I know my sister and I were jackasses who sometimes deserved to be yelled at.

From Slate Dec. 23, 2020

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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