assload
/ˈæsloʊd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An amount carried up someone's ass.
Example Sentences
- "In agreement with Sultan Wais of Sawad there was laid on the Kahraj people an impost of four thousand assloads of rice for the use of the army, and he himself was sent to collect it."
- "I done made you a assload of money. You know fuckin' well, nobody else in this city could move as much 'caine as the Diablos."
- "I'm due an assload of credits and I'll die before I can get 'em! Who do I talk to?"
- "The smugglers thought they could get away with bringing an assload of heroin balloons on board the aircraft."
Etymology
Sense 1 is from ass + load and is old; sense 3 is from ass + load and is newer; sense 2 came from sense 1 but is often synchronically reanalyzed as coming from sense 3.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈæsloʊd/