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long-ass

long-ass

7 9.9
Very long and taking a lot of time
  • adjective
  • /lɔŋ æs/
  • Offensive
: jodidamente largo
  • Well, it's a long-ass trip.

And you spend a year writing this long ass essay basically.

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Examples

  • And you spend a year writing this long ass essay basically.

  • Think of all the great TV shows you love - Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, pick your poison - how often are you blown away by a long-ass monologue?

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  • I was flying to South Africa, which is a long ass flight, flying from LA to London and then going to South Africa.

  • And I argue that a better approach is to be like consistently good enough over a long ass period of time.

  • I'm scared of Auntie this show been going on a long ass time.

  • Still looking pretty good but it's been a very long day and I thought let's make it longer with a long ass monthly favorites so here we are.

  • Me, I had on then what I had on when I got when I got put on, I had on like a long ass white T-shirt and some skinny jeans.

  • And so once a week we tell stories, we go on long ass random tangents, we make each other laugh, we tell nostalgic, embarrassing anecdotes.

  • The meeting felt like it lasted for a long-ass time, and I couldn't wait for it to be over.

  • I watched a long-ass documentary about space that took up my entire evening.

Antonyms

∞ 1.0

Not long in distance, height, or time

How Long

endless
262 2.5
long-ass
  • Offensive
7 9.9
lengthy
114 3.5
short
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

long-ass positive

Morphology

long-ass = long + ass (semi-transparent) = long + ass

The core meaning 'long' is obvious, but the role of 'ass' is a slang, vulgar intensifier rather than a regular grammatical suffix, so the overall formation is informal and may not be predictable to learners.

Etymology

The word long-ass combines long 'lengthy' with ass, a rude slang word used to make a word stronger. So long-ass means 'extremely long' or that something takes a lot of time.