Idiom
whoop ass
Vulgar
Meaning
To beat or strike.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The boxer is ready to whoop ass in the ring tonight.”
“If you keep bothering my little brother, he is going to whoop your ass.”
“The underdog fighter entered the arena with a fierce determination to whoop ass and claim the championship title.”
Examples
simple
“The boxer is ready to whoop ass in the ring tonight.”
contextual
“If you keep bothering my little brother, he is going to whoop your ass.”
complex
“The underdog fighter entered the arena with a fierce determination to whoop ass and claim the championship title.”
Origin
Formed from the English whoop, a variant of whip, and ass. The term functions as a compound of these two elements.
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