Meaning

(countable) A male donkey..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A male donkey.
2. (countable, chiefly US) A foolish or stupid person.
3. (countable, chiefly US) An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
4. (US, slang, uncountable) A kind of bootleg liquor.
5. (countable, Australia, obsolete) The laughing kookaburra.
6. (rare, intransitive) To behave very obnoxiously.
7. (poker slang) A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

Example Sentences

Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make.

As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar] a day.'

By now the wine counties were rife with the activity of the illegal wine trade and the force of the Prohibition Unit was hustling to keep up. At the start of the year, Officer William Navas had staged a raid on the dining room at Healdsburg's Hotel Sotoyome and discovered 'jackass' brandy […]

Word Forms

• jackasses
• jackassing
• jackassed

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