tear ass

present singular third person tears ass · participle present tearing ass · past tore ass · participle past torn ass

1. USinformalvulgarTo move extremely quickly; to haul ass.

   I didn't get to drive the Air, but I did get to pleasure of being Rawlinson's passenger as he tore ass down the Las Vegas strip.

   2017 January 9, Andrew J. Hawkins, “Riding with Lucid Motors, the 1,000-horsepower electric car built to beat Tesla”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 28 May 2023

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   Someone's jumped bail and she thinks he might have torn ass to east Kentucky. Raylan agrees to track him down for a decent chunk of pocket money.

   2013 January 9, Patrick Cooper, “JUSTIFIED Episode Recap: "Hole in the Wall"”, in Collider, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2020

   We pulled into a filling station, he jumped out, gassed up, jumped back in, and tore ass out of the station and made a bad U-turn in front of traffic. He worried me a little. What if he'd left the pump hose in the tank? What then?

   2017 March 5, Alec Wilkinson, quoting Ry Cooder, “Jack White's Infinite Imagination”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2023

   Sure, that could just be a coincidence rather than Toretto wannabes tearing ass out of the theater parking lot. But the researchers found no similar correlation with releases for the new Hunger Games movies which don't glorify fast driving; they also found that the increases didn't occur at the same time in the previous year when no Fast movie had been released so it's not like it's a seasonal trend.

   2018 January 31, Jesse Hicks, “'Fast and the Furious' Movies Linked to People Driving Recklessly”, in VICE, archived from the original on 16 May 2023

   Synonyms: tear-ass, fly, scramble, get a move on, hasten, haul, hurtle, bustle