jackass
Americannoun
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a male donkey
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a stupid person; fool
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another name for kookaburra
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As the politician Sam Rayburn famously said: “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024
"Any jackass can kick over a lantern and burn down a bar. It takes a carpenter to build one - we want to be on the side of the carpenter," Roemer told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2022
Mr. Fieri proceeded to make something he calls the jackass roll — rice, pork butt, fries and avocado — so named, he said, because a friend told him he looked like a jackass preparing it.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2022
Is this first, experimental evening doomed to end in us jackass “theater critics” making fun of technical glitches and related awkwardness?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2020
My mother says he's a jackass of all trades, and a master of none.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
“Before I came down with the virus, I was one of those jackasses who thought the virus would disappear the day after the election. I was one of those conspiracy theorists,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2021
To be clear, I'm glad the police didn't do anything to the jackasses who showed up to protest the lockdowns.
From Salon ● May 27, 2020
But, no, it turns out that his corrective advice to wallflowers and jackasses is considerably more durable.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
“People love watching jackasses doing stupid things!” yells the chief executive of a certain huge video-sharing company.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2015
If it came up heads, it simply meant that the three men would have to line up in a row and make jackasses of themselves once again in front of the live television cameras.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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