Meanings
plural assloads · alternative ass-load · alternative ass load
- 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 781 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 192Synonyms: buttload, shitload, shedload, boatload, cartload, abundance, battalion, arseload
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA large amount.
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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assload. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assload
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