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assload

noun
/ˈæsloʊd/US

Etymology

Sense 1 is from ass + load and is old; sense 3 is from ass + load and is newer; sense 2 came from sense 1 but is often synchronically reanalyzed as coming from sense 3.

  1. derived from *leyt-✻
  2. inherited from *laidō✻
  3. inherited from lād
  4. inherited from lode
  5. compounded as assload — “ass#Etymology_1 + load”

Definitions

  1. An amount carried by an ass (donkey).

    • In agreement with Sultan Wais of Sawad there was laid on the Kahraj people an impost of four thousand assloads of rice for the use of the army, and he himself was sent to collect it.

  2. A large amount.

    • I done made you a assload of money. You know fuckin' well, nobody else in this city could move as much 'caine as the Diablos.
    • I'm due an assload of credits and I'll die before I can get 'em! Who do I talk to?

  3. An amount carried up someone's ass.

    • The smugglers thought they could get away with bringing an assload of heroin balloons on board the aircraft.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for assload. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA