Half-ass

Quick meaning: Half-ass is an adjective meaning (slang, somewhat vulgar, transitive) To perform a task incompletely or carelessly.

Meaning

(slang, somewhat vulgar, transitive) To perform a task incompletely or carelessly.

More Meanings

1. (slang, somewhat vulgar) Produced in an incompetent or desultory manner, or of something lacking in quality or substance; of low rank; incompetent.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: phone in, shortchange, underdo

the only abortion she could get even in the city would be a half-ass job by some half-ass doctor who could mess her up for the rest of her life

if you're working for me and I send you to do a job and you half-ass it, that reflects on me. In civilian life, we'd just fire you. Here I can't get rid of you.

Now, we go out there and we half-ass it because we're scared, all we're left with is an excuse. We're always gonna wonder. But, we go out there and we give it absolutely everything… that's heroic.

Word Forms

• half-arse
• half-asses
• half-assing
• half-assed

Synonyms for half-ass

Depending on context, synonyms include half-assed, phone in, shortchange, underdo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include halfassed, artless, low-end, half-hearted, one-star, incompetent.

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