jackass

plural jackasses

1. countableA male donkey.

   Synonyms: he-ass, jack

2. UScountableA foolish or stupid person.

   Synonyms: jackaninny, idiot, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain

3. UScountableAn inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.

   Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make.

   2004 King of the Hill (TV, season 8.8)

   Synonyms: jerk, asshole, bastard, bitch

4. USslanguncountableA kind of bootleg liquor.

   By now the wine counties were rife with the activity of the illegal wine trade and the force of the Prohibition Unit was hustling to keep up. At the start of the year, Officer William Navas had staged a raid on the dining room at Healdsburg's Hotel Sotoyome and discovered 'jackass' brandy […]

   Vivienne Sosnowski, When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p. 110)

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   As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar] a day.'

   Richard Mendelson, From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 82)

5. AustraliacountableobsoleteThe laughing kookaburra.

present singular third person jackasses · participle present jackassing · participle past jackassed · past jackassed

1. intransitiverareTo behave very obnoxiously.

plural jackasses

1. slangcard gamesA jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.