tear ass

verb
/tɛɚ ˈæs/US

Definitions

  1. To move extremely quickly

    To move extremely quickly; to haul ass.

    • Someone's jumped bail and she thinks he might have torn ass to east Kentucky. Raylan agrees to track him down for a decent chunk of pocket money.
    • I didn't get to drive the Air, but I did get to pleasure of being Rawlinson's passenger as he tore ass down the Las Vegas strip.
    • We pulled into a filling station, he jumped out, gassed up, jumped back in, and tore ass out of the station and made a bad U-turn in front of traffic. He worried me a little. What if he'd left the pump hose in the tank? What then?

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