Meaning

3 senses
  1. An amount carried by an ass (donkey).

  2. (US, slang, vulgar)A large amount.

  3. An amount carried up someone's ass.

    The smugglers thought they could get away with bringing an assload of heroin balloons on board the aircraft.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

Sense 1 is from ass + load and is old; sense 3 is from ass + load and is newer; sense 2 ca

Sense 1 is from ass + load and is old; sense 3 is from ass + load and is newer; sense 2 came from sense 1 but is often synchronically reanalyzed as coming from sense 3.

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