Meanings
- CanadaUSnot comparableslangvulgarComplete; total.
Did he just eat that whole-ass bag of candy without offering to share? He's a grown-ass man acting like a twelve-year-old!
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"You are a whole-ass mess."
2018, Toy, chapter 2, in Forbidden Love from a Savage: An Urban Romance, Sullivan Group Publishing,, →ISBNSynonyms: abject, frightful, absolute, prize, clean, arrant, categoric, categorical
present singular third person whole-asses · participle present whole-assing · participle past whole-assed · past whole-assed
- CanadaUSslangtransitivevulgarTo perform (a task) completely and carefully.
Near-synonyms: put one's heart in, put one's whole pussy into
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Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.
2012, Norm Hiscock, Parks and Recreation, season 4, episode 16, spoken by Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman)Synonyms: full-ass, put one's heart in, put one's whole pussy into
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveComplete; total.
verbTo perform (a task) completely and carefully.
Origin
From whole + -ass, by analogy with half-ass, which appeared first. Also possibly influenced by asshole.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
whole-ass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whole-ass
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