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- adjective idiomatic, colloquial Alternative form of
ass-backwards .
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Examples
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And how many of these types of back-asswards attempts to get published show up on your doorstep every week?
MONDAY 2009
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Do we really think back-asswards ideas about race are confined to a mythical American South that vaguely resembles Deliverance country?
October 14th, 2007 2007
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Are all Republicans as back-asswards as the Cheney administration and their fellow conquistadors of Middle Eastern Democracy?
The Complicity Double Standard With Iran « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2007
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“What kind of back-asswards city is this” and so on.
Expected commuter crush on SkyTrain didn’t happen « Stephen Rees's blog 2009
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When I think of Switzerland this kind of back-asswards, medieval type policy isn't what generally comes to mind.
Baaaaad Party, Baaaaad Party ewe are here 2007
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Finally I stopped coming at it back-asswards and began reading primary sources or accounts by the sharecroppers themselves.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE AND MARGIE Maggie Jochild 2007
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Those are back-asswards ways of trying to fix the economy.
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Others just stared blankly back at questions; others thought it was against the law to try explain anything; and one I overheard at another table solved problems by authoritatively explaining things back-asswards and upside down, and handed out God knows which ballots.
Bill Parent: Fox News and Forgotten Addresses: A Day In the Life of a CA Poll Worker 2008
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I will, however, attempt to set the record straight whenever the Grumpy Old Media has it back-asswards.
Chi Tung: Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again) 2008
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I'm not denying for one second that women are still stoned in certain back-asswards parts of the world.
Archive 2008-02-01 Lindsay Stewart 2008
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