assload
nounUS /ˈæsloʊd/
Etymology 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.
1
An amount carried by an ass (donkey).
- 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.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 435:
- 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.2006, Leon Higgins, He She Black Widow, →ISBN, page 192:
- I'm due an assload of credits and I'll die before I can get 'em! Who do I talk to?2007, James V McKnight, Jammer, →ISBN, page 78:
3
An amount carried up someone's ass.
- The smugglers thought they could get away with bringing an assload of heroin balloons on board the aircraft.
- Related terms
- assback, donkeyback, panniers