beat someone's ass

present singular third person beats someone's ass · participle present beating someone's ass · participle past beaten someone's ass

1. To thrash someone.
   1. USidiomaticvulgarTo beat someone severely.

      God say spoil the apple, rot the apple, beat the child," some shit like that. Uh-huh, which mean beat your ass.

      1997, Leon E. Pettiway, Workin' it: Women Living Through Drugs and Crime, page 210

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      While one of the gangbangers may beat your ass down this way, the other of the gangbangers will definitely beat your ass down that way.

      2009, Clarence M. Allen, Regulate!: The Manual, page 101

      Why can't you come up with another form of punishment because beating is not going to work, because it's not working now? Terry said "it will work if I have to beat your ass all day” with a smirk on his face.

      2011, Hezekiah Nevels, Raised by a Nine-Year Old King: - Volume 1, page 95

      Synonyms: tan someone's hide

   2. USidiomaticvulgarTo defeat or trounce someone; to win decisively over someone.

      We got to do whatever it takes and beat their ass.

      2015, Scott Winter, Nebrasketball: Coach Tim Miles and a Big Ten Team on the Rise, page 168

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      Knowing that we next played Nebraska in two years there, I slid a piece of paper over to Tom: "The only way to shut this guy up is to beat their ass in Lincoln . "

      2021, Fred Glass, Making Your Own Luck

      We decided to take a break and went bowling because there really wasn't much to do at that time of night. We played four rounds of bowling, and James beat our ass in all four rounds.

      2021, Jae Butagorjus, Chi~Town Trini