kick ass
(informal, vulgar, ambitransitive) To beat to a pulp; beat up.
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I was gonna make a similar comment, but y'know what? I didn't make the meme, you did, and both it and you kick ass.
YAKUZA 5 P severe pacing issues, the individual maps make the whole game kinda feel lacking, the ending kinda feels so much Not Prepared despite the game length But also the side story minigames and Chapters 3 and 4…
Hope y'all kick ass! We'll be rooting for you! The exhaustion will be worth it when y'all win!!
You're a bad ass Ms CE Murphy a slayer of words and killer of the killer sentences! I bet you can bake a really kick ass cake too!
I remember seeing young kids in the theater for “Kick Ass”. What responsible parent brings their kids to be around a dementia-riddled, slowly dying psychotic pedophile?
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(informal, vulgar, ambitransitive) To beat to a pulp; beat up.
“YAKUZA 5 P severe pacing issues, the individual maps make the whole game kinda feel lacking, the ending kinda feels so much Not Prepared despite the game length But also the side story minigames and Chapters 3 and 4 kick ass ngl, and the first half of the Finale DOES go hard”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(stative, idiomatic, US, Canada, colloquial, vulgar) To be very impressive.
The soundtrack to this film really kicks ass!
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(idiomatic, US, Canada, colloquial, vulgar) To win decisively.
“I was gonna make a similar comment, but y'know what? I didn't make the meme, you did, and both it and you kick ass.”
“Hope y'all kick ass! We'll be rooting for you! The exhaustion will be worth it when y'all win!!”
“You're a bad ass Ms CE Murphy a slayer of words and killer of the killer sentences! I bet you can bake a really kick ass cake too!”
Did you win? We didn't just win, we kicked ass.
Kick ass means: To win decisively.. It is mainly Canadian English and may not be understood outside that context. It carries sexual or vulgar connotations; not alarming on its own but worth understanding the context your teen heard it in. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
kick ass means: To win decisively.. Register: very informal, often derogatory or vulgar. Avoid in formal, business, academic, or polite writing. Even in casual speech the word can offend and is best left out of a learner's active vocabulary. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself.
“I was gonna make a similar comment, but y'know what? I didn't make the meme, you did, and both it and you kick ass.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Hope y'all kick ass! We'll be rooting for you! The exhaustion will be worth it when y'all win!!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“You're a bad ass Ms CE Murphy a slayer of words and killer of the killer sentences! I bet you can bake a really kick ass cake too!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I remember seeing young kids in the theater for “Kick Ass”. What responsible parent brings their kids to be around a dementia-riddled, slowly dying psychotic pedophile?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Travis is taken by the most kick ass sexy lady in the USA, ( says me the unabashed fangirl of the Kelce family )”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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