ass-loadとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Sense 1 is from ass +‎ load and is old; sense 3 is from ass +‎ load and is newer; sense 2 came from sense 1 but is often synchronically reanalyzed as coming from sense 3.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈæsloʊd/

名詞

assload (plural assloads)

1. An amount carried by an ass (donkey).

   Coordinate terms: muleload, horseload; cartload, cartful, wagonload, wagonful, drayload, drayful, sledgeload, sledgeful, boatload, boatful, bargeload, bargeful

   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 435:

     In agreement with Sultan Wais of Sawad there was laid on the Kahraj people an impost of four thousand assloads of rice for the use of the army, and he himself was sent to collect it.

2. (slang, vulgar, US) A large amount.

   Synonyms: buttload, shitload, shedload, boatload, cartload; see also Thesaurus:lot

   • 2006, Leon Higgins, He She Black Widow‎, →ISBN, page 192:

     I done made you a assload of money. You know fuckin' well, nobody else in this city could move as much 'caine as the Diablos.

   • 2007, James V McKnight, Jammer‎, →ISBN, page 78:

     I'm due an assload of credits and I'll die before I can get 'em! Who do I talk to?

3. An amount carried up someone's ass.

   Synonyms: buttload, buttful

   The smugglers thought they could get away with bringing an assload of heroin balloons on board the aircraft.

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• Salados, sal soda, salsoda