to whoop ass
16
9.9
- idiom
- /ˈhuːp æs/
- Offensive
:
partir la cara a (vulgar)
- Because he's about to whoop your ass, that's why.
- gonna whoop ass
Then when you play a team that'll whoop your ass, you freeze up.
- Then when you play a team that'll whoop your ass, you freeze up.
- No, I'm the one that whooped your ass.
- It's like they're as soon as you're OK, I'm gonna whoop your ass.
- And he challenged her to it and she whooped his fucking ass, did she?
- We heard that, hey, there's some kid up in the North Shore, I think is where he grew up, whooping everybody's ass.
- And that town would just be called Texas Town because they're going to whoop ass New Mexico.
- I think they should curse me out and spit on me and whoop my ass cuz I was tripping.
- I, I have felony charges, but it was just whooping ass.
Examples
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- I used to whoop your ass on that court.
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Then when you play a team that'll whoop your ass, you freeze up.
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You know your sister will whoop your ass.
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You know I'll whoop your ass.
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I'm getting ready to go and whoop her ass.
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For 200 grand, I'm gonna whoop your ass.
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My momma told me to whoop your ass.
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He took his losses and came back and whooped some ass.
Blog text (2) -
They whooped my skinny ass so much I started to enjoy it.
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I'm going to whoop ass in the next basketball game against that rival team.
Synonyms
53
9.9
To hurt or defeat someone very badly, often by hitting them
45
9.0
To beat or punish someone very badly
32
4.2
To beat someone easily in a game or contest
11
8.7
To beat someone by a large amount in a contest or game
3
7.7
Win easily by a lot against another person or team
1
9.9
To defeat someone completely, often physically or in a game, used in rude speech
1
6.7
To beat someone very easily and completely in a game or contest
1
9.9
To attack or punish someone suddenly and violently, often for something they did
Beat someone completely in a game or contest
Hit someone many times so they become badly hurt
How Decisive
- Informal
557
1.7
14
7.5
- Offensive
16
9.9
- Offensive
271
4.1
∞
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to defeat someone decisively' follows directly from combining 'whoop' (to beat or overwhelmingly defeat) with 'ass' used as a vulgar object/intensifier referring to the person, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the idiom's meaning. The expression is informal and coarse in register, but this does not obscure its compositional derivation.
Etymology
Whoop ass may come from a simple image: whoop is a loud shout or a strong hit and ass means the 'butt' or the person being hit. So, the phrase now means 'to defeat someone completely', often in a fight or competition.