Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ass kicking

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English

Syllables: as-s -kick-ing
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A beating, sometimes prearranged.

noun

A brutal and decisive defeat of an individual or group of people by another who had thoroughly dominated them in doing so, such as in sports.

Example Sentences

"Meet me after school for your ass kicking!"
"The top-ranked football team limited their opponents to just two first downs and 40 total yards, while rolling up 550 rushing yards and scoring the first eight times they had the ball in the ass kicking of the year."
"When Wade first crosses paths with Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), the ass-kicking fellow “gunter” (or egg hunter) with whom he becomes infatuated, the pair’s meet cute is predicated on the swapping of favorite pop-culture quotes."

Inflected Forms

ass kickings (plural)

Questions

What does ass kicking mean?: A beating, sometimes prearranged.

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