assload

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US/ˈæsloʊd/

noun

An amount carried by an ass (donkey).

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

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Meanings

nounassload (plural assloads)

plural assloads · alternative ass-load · alternative ass load

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

    In agreement with Sultan Wais of Sawad there was laid on the Kahraj people an impost of four thousand assloads of rice for the use of the army, and he himself was sent to collect it.

    1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 435
  2. USslangvulgarA large amount.

    I'm due an assload of credits and I'll die before I can get 'em! Who do I talk to?

    2007, James V McKnight, Jammer, →ISBN, page 78
    1 more example

    I done made you a assload of money. You know fuckin' well, nobody else in this city could move as much 'caine as the Diablos.

    2006, Leon Higgins, He She Black Widow, →ISBN, page 192

    Synonyms: buttload, shitload, shedload, boatload, cartload, abundance, battalion, arseload

  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.

    Synonyms: buttload, buttful

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn amount carried up someone's ass.

Origin

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.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Persian خروار, خربار
  • خروار (xar-vâr)weight carried by donkey
  • خربار (xar-bâr)weight carried by donkey
Polish pierdyliard, ciężar niesiony przez osła
  • pierdyliarda large amount
  • ciężar niesiony przez osławeight carried by donkey
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APA

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MLA

“assload.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assload. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “assload,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assload.

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