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- adjective Alternative spelling of
bass-ackwards .
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Examples
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That pretty well defines "bassackwards," doesn't it?
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That pretty well defines "bassackwards," doesn't it?
Signs of the Times 2009
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That of course is bassackwards to what it should be.
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You may need to just look away if you feel faint at the sight of big, heavy jobs being done totally bassackwards.
Why we built a driveway. The Curious Holts 2009
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That of course is bassackwards to what it should be.
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This country is bassackwards: GWB and Dick Cheney (two of the world's WORST criminals) living it up in their strongholds in redneck, TREASONOUS Texas and Wyoming ...
CNN Poll: Obama approval drops 7 points over last 100 days 2009
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You may need to just look away if you feel faint at the sight of big, heavy jobs being done totally bassackwards.
Archive 2009-06-01 The Curious Holts 2009
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Violence, hysteria, racism, and doom are the Four Horseman of this near-and-present apocalypse, but it would be a mistake not to see a pattern on the Right that extends bassackwards to the Bush-Cheney administration.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: The Apocalyptic Style in American Politics Michael Conniff 2010
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Violence, hysteria, racism, and doom are the Four Horseman of this near-and-present apocalypse, but it would be a mistake not to see a pattern on the Right that extends bassackwards to the Bush-Cheney administration.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: The Apocalyptic Style in American Politics Michael Conniff 2010
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Somehow the terminology they use to describe their theories has always seemed bassackwards in practice.
slumry commented on the word bassackwards
Humorous euphemistic spoonerism for assbackwards. Goes back to the 1940s or 1950s, or before.
June 19, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word bassackwards
Really??? (I've been saying that a lot tonight.) I hadn't heard it until a few years ago. Maybe people just don't use it around me.
June 19, 2007
slumry commented on the word bassackwards
I'm interested in this--I have a hunch that the term fell into disuse for a while. It seems to me that when I heard it in the 1960s it sounded somewhat old-fashioned. Perhaps it is having a revival!
June 19, 2007