burn someone's ass

verb

To irritate, bother, grind one's gears.

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Meanings

verbburn someone's ass (third-person singular simple present burns someone's ass, present participle burning someone's ass, simple past and past participle burned someone's ass or burnt someone's ass)

present singular third person burns someone's ass · participle present burning someone's ass · participle past burned someone's ass · past burned someone's ass · participle past burnt someone's ass · past burnt someone's ass

  1. To irritate, bother, grind one's gears.

    It really burns my ass to see the glorification in books, plays, movies, and musicals of Henry VIII of England, that loathsome monarch who discarded woman after woman because he had no use for the female offspring they produced.

    1976 April 17, Don Shewey, “Eros and Heroes on the Boards”, in Gay Community News, page 11

Synonyms & antonyms

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