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Jackass

//ˈd͡ʒækæs// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A male donkey. countable
  2. 2
    A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em. slang
  3. 3
    male donkey wordnet
  4. 4
    A foolish or stupid person. US, countable
  5. 5
    a man who is a stupid incompetent fool wordnet
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  1. 6
    An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person. US, countable

    "Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make."

  2. 7
    A kind of bootleg liquor. US, slang, uncountable

    "As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar] a day.'"

  3. 8
    The laughing kookaburra. Australia, countable, obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To behave very obnoxiously. intransitive, rare

Etymology

Etymology 1

From jack + ass.

Etymology 2

From jack + ass.

Etymology 3

From the phonetic similarity of "jack, ace" to "jackass".

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