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- adjective idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic Alternative form of
ass-backwards . - adverb idiomatic, colloquial, euphemistic Alternative form of
ass-backwards .
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Examples
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Is it just me, or are wingnuts starting to sound like a bass-ackwards parody of Kim Jong Il?
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In fact (I know, I have said this a million times), the IDers get it bass-ackwards.
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Stubbornly refusing to use a superior method seems weird, unless (1) your way takes way more time and is way more annoying (the annoyingness of protocol vs improvement in data tradeoff), or (2) your way of doing things is 1,000,000% different than the standard method, and he can't understand how doing it in a completely bass-ackwards way would work.
Standing Alone in My Methods Candid Engineer 2009
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Is it just me, or are wingnuts starting to sound like a bass-ackwards parody of Kim Jong Il?
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Is it just me, or are wingnuts starting to sound like a bass-ackwards parody of Kim Jong Il?
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Of course my real eyes take to shrieking that they're still straddling my nose, still the boss of all things optical, instigating a tug-of-war with the new bass-ackwards viewpoint.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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Nine fruitless years is a helluva long stampede, Mr. Stephens, and you've got the whole equation bass-ackwards.
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To fear-mongering recidivist rednecks, that is highly threatening to their cliche 'views of the world, their isolationist chickenshit hiding from the rest of the planet, and their bass-ackwards views of how "things ought to be done."
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You've got things all bass-ackwards, Anon. Posted by onceler
Hillary And Obama Campaigns At War Over Bill's Iraq Comments 2009
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Not that it matters, but TPM has the Republican Rasmussen polls bass-ackwards.
Hillary And Obama Camps Duke It Out Over Her Alleged "Screw 'Em" Comment 2009
ry commented on the word bass-ackwards
This is an interestingly unique colloquialism. A deliberate spoonerism of the term ass-backwards; in being so, it both further evokes the explicit definition and partially euphemizes.
I feel like this word has been increasing in general usage, at least in the US.
August 16, 2013
bilby commented on the word bass-ackwards
We might therefore term it an Oonerspism.
August 16, 2013