(vulgar, slang, North America) To suffer an extraordinarily devastating defeat.
(vulgar, slang, North America) To suffer an extraordinarily devastating defeat.
"get one's ass handed to one" means: To suffer an extraordinarily devastating defeat.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"get one's ass handed to one" means: To suffer an extraordinarily devastating defeat.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
"get one's ass handed to one" means: To suffer an extraordinarily devastating defeat.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
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(vulgar, slang, North America) To beat up someone else.
(slang, vulgar, figuratively) To be decisively beaten.
To beat someone's ass means to physically thrash or defeat them decisively — to win a fight so thoroughly there's no question about it. It's American vernacular at its most direct, used both to describe actual physical confrontations and as hyperbolic trash talk. You'll hear it in arguments, competitive sports smack talk, and dramatic retellings of altercations. It can also be used figuratively when one thing crushes another completely, like a team beating another team's ass on the scoreboard.
(slang, vulgar) To hurt or beat up.
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