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- verb Australia, New Zealand, UK, vulgar, slang Simple past tense and past participle of
arse .Bothered (as in can't be bothered to...).
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Examples
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And DC, I can't be "arsed" to keep up with the Four Horsemen or Black Adam...
Archive 2007-06-01 Brian Hughes 2007
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And DC, I can't be "arsed" to keep up with the Four Horsemen or Black Adam...
AWtC Weekly: 6/22/07 Brian Hughes 2007
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I have done work for government departments because their own staff couldn't be basically "arsed" to do the work despite having the resources and the training.
Word Magazine - Comments stimpy 2010
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Olly's Onions: Taoiseach and Obama hold talks, get rat-arsed skip to main | skip to sidebar
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Nice to see her security work is just as half arsed as her science as she researched the radio transmissions.
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It's a tricky call to be honest, I mean, I'm sure there have been plenty of people working on games I loved with views I disagree with, isn't it a little half arsed only to bother with Card because he's a more public figure?
A Complex Shadow SVGL 2009
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Carry out your editing to the end – to the finest detail – no half arsed efforts
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Now, for those who couldn't be arsed following the link, here's the bit of reading practice I mentioned above.
Archive 2009-01-01 Another Outspoken Female 2009
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"That's not fair", they cry like the shit-arsed babies that they are.
Checkmate Dungeekin 2009
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Although, you and I could do that with any film if we couldn't be arsed finishing it.
Ivory Coast v Zambia - as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2012
johnmperry commented on the word arsed
can't be arsed = can't be bothered
June 22, 2008