Meanings
- CanadaUScolloquialvulgarRapidly chasing or pursuing someone.
Help! The cops are on my ass!
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Then they saw him, his legs pumping, his face a mask of determination. "Go!" he shouted in a high voice. "They're on my ass!"
1987, Samantha Harte, Vanity Blade, Toronto, Ont.; New York, N.Y.: PaperJacks Ltd., →ISBN, page 243Synonyms: on someone's butt
- CanadaUScolloquialvulgarTailgating someone.
Why is this guy on my ass? I guess doing ten over the limit isn't enough speeding for this moron.
- CanadaUScolloquialvulgarPersistently urging someone on and putting pressure on them.
My mom's always on my ass about keeping my grades up.
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They would see to it that I graduated, not by pulling strings as might have been done at other schools, but by staying on my ass just as a parent would to help me off the field as well as on the field.
2011, Harry Carson, Captain for Life: My Story as a Hall of Fame Linebacker, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 44I slept on his couch for a few days, then he started getting on my ass about looking for work. I said, 'For Christ's sake, Frankie, I just graduated. Can I just enjoy the moment?'
2012, Mark Anthony Rolo, My Mother Is Now Earth, St. Paul, M.N.: Borealis Books, →ISBN, page 121Synonyms: on someone's dick
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseRapidly chasing or pursuing someone.
prepositional phrasePersistently urging someone on and putting pressure on them.
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on someone's ass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20someone's%20ass
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