tear ass
/tɛɚ ˈæs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Someone's jumped bail and she thinks he might have torn ass to east Kentucky. Raylan agrees to track him down for a decent chunk of pocket money."
- "I didn't get to drive the Air, but I did get to pleasure of being Rawlinson's passenger as he tore ass down the Las Vegas strip."
- "We pulled into a filling station, he jumped out, gassed up, jumped back in, and tore ass out of the station and made a bad U-turn in front of traffic. He worried me a little. What if he'd left the pump hose in the tank? What then?"
- "Sure, that could just be a coincidence rather than Toretto wannabes tearing ass out of the theater parking lot. But the researchers found no similar correlation with releases for the new Hunger Games movies which don't glorify fast driving; they also found that the increases didn't occur at the same time in the previous year when no Fast movie had been released so it's not like it's a seasonal trend."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɛɚ ˈæs/