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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An actor playing a heightened, jackass version of himself and flexing improv muscles we never knew he had?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
"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
Even a stubborn, pig-headed jackass like Mr. Henderson acknowledges that Magaro and Orion Lee have great chemistry together.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2020
“It’ll be Daniel in the Lion’s den, or David and the Giant, or when Samson took that jackass bone and killed all those people. It’ll be one of those three. It always is.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
“Unfortunately I’m really good at playing jackasses of one kind or another,” he told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2023
“Unfortunately, I’m really good at playing jackasses of one kind or another,” he told The Wall Street Journal in 2012.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
“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
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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