Arse about

adj, verb, slang

adj, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of arse around. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    be lazy or idle wordnet
  3. 3
    To turn round. obsolete, slang
Adjective
  1. 1
    The wrong way round; exactly opposite to that which is desirable; contrary; conceptually inverted; wrong. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, not-comparable, slang

    "You've got this arse-about!"

Synonyms

All synonyms
arse aroundbumbum aboutbum aroundfrig aroundfuck off

Example

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"For the dome of the belly turned arse about has its parallel in the eye that falls out like the contents of a broken egg and that in its evocation of and preempting of regeneration becomes, in Bataille's novel, unremittingly erotic and polymorphously perverse."

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