arse about face
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a manner that is opposite to or the reverse of the way it should be, backwards.
British usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "No wonder it doesn't look right mate, you've got the whole thing arse about face."
- "It’s absurd, topsy-turvy, arse-about-face. But shit, nonetheless, demands a reading, and vice versa."
- "Someone blows a hole in the head of the owner a couple of places along the Gap and nobody seems to give a shit. Fucking arse about face this fucking place."
- "Like we didn't move here for my job, we came here (for ...) to become a student and study for a degree and it's arse about face. We tend to do things in an arse-about-face way no matter how hard we try. And I, at the risk of being hopelessly inarticulate I like the arse about face-ness of the LETS system."
- "We've got it so arse about face in modern society."
- "Use them to inpregnant^([sic]) a woman: muddle up past and future, in-breed across time-zones, turn the family tree into a tangled bush, roots and shoots all arse about face."
Usage
Inflected Forms
arse-about-face (alternative)
arse about front (alternative)
arse about tip (alternative)
arse about tit (alternative)