headass
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
headass (plural headasses)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) Forming insults denoting a person of a specified kind.
- Look at this Young Sheldon headass.
- 2016, Amber Shanel, Shorty You Deserve What You've Been Missing, Talehia Presents, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- "Meow headass nigga," Quan commented to himself. He ain't really give a fuck if Devon heard him or not.
- 2017, Vince Houghton, anonymous quotee, Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2019, →ISBN, page 221:
- Just prior to the landfall of Hurricane Irma in September 2017, a Facebook "event" page was created calling for Florida gun owners to shoot at the hurricane in an attempt to either weaken it or change its course. The page exclaimed: "yo so this goofy looking windy headass name irma said they pulling up on us, lets show irma that we shoot first" [multiple emojis redacted].
- 2018, Kristiana Rae Colón, “Suspension”, in Alice Kim, Erica R. Meiners, Audrey Petty, Jill Petty, Beth E. Richie, Sarah Ross, editors, The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom, Chicago, I.L.: Haymarket Books, →ISBN, page 138:
- i gotta pay another twenty five dollars cuz yo gray's lake headass don't know how to talk to kids!
- 2020 November 2, u/Zip_Zoopity_Bop, “Trump mob bear maces and attempts to start fights with woman, when she tries to present evidence to Police they dismiss her.”, in Reddit[1], r/PublicFreakout, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- "I took a hollowpoint to the face to own the libs" Headasses. They act like they're going to go into spectator mode right afterwards to see their handiwork unfold.
- 2024 February 14, @iiPepper_, Twitter[2], archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- I can't stand a "well I did xyz, racism isn't affecting me" headass mf...
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) A person's self.
- Synonym: ass
- Get your headass over here!
- 2018, L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black, New York, N.Y.: Imprint, →ISBN, page 283:
- "He's getting worse. Can you believe that fool is ready to die?" Anger warred with the burn of tears. "On top of that, his headass is ready to make me watch it happen."
- 2019, L.L. McKinney, “Your Life Matters”, in Sangu Mandanna, editor, Color Outside the Lines: Stories About Love, New York, N.Y.: Soho Teen, →ISBN, page 65:
- But this was Ari's dad. She had to try! Even if his headass didn't think the best of her.
- 2021 November 6, u/GreenBeans1999, “wtf is "soup" what do i need to do ahhhh”, in Reddit[3], r/adhdmeme, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- This is me putting really vague stuff in my calendar thinking my headass is gonna know wtf I'm talking about later
- 2023 August 18, “Y'all not grindin hard enough”, in Reddit[4], r/BlackPeopleTwitter, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- "Y'all know who it is" ¶ There are forty mfs on facebook with your name how am I supposed to know which one of them is your headass
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) A stupid or contemptible person.
- Synonyms: shitass, fuckass; see also Thesaurus:jerk
- Bro, stop acting like a headass.
- 2020, Pam Withers, Arooj Hayat, The Parkour Club, page 38:
- Ignore our guy Dan, by the way. Every community has its token headass.
- 2021, Mariah L. Stevens, Starlight on the Snow (The Apricity Series; Book One), →ISBN, page 115:
- "Because you're only in here because I yelled at you, headass!" he shouted back. "You're not in here, trying to help because you actually want to. Even if you helped me now, you'd just go right back to being a fucking pig tomorrow!"
- 2022 June 11, u/Ps3FifaCfc95, “Steph Curry with a masterful G4 performance to even the finals at 2-2: 43 points on 14/26 shooting (7/14 from deep), 10 rebounds, 4 assists”, in Reddit[5], r/nba, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- Steph really went on the road down 2-1 and beat Boston, the refs, and Draymond playing like a headass
Adjective edit
headass (comparative more headass, superlative most headass)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) Stupid, idiotic.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stupid
- This is by far the most headass thing I've ever read.
- 2021 April 30, u/LanskiAK, “Judge says Columbus police ran 'amok' during protests, bans future violent responses”, in Reddit[6], r/Columbus, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- OSU tools wreck shit every year whether they're winning or losing at sports or life, and you just expect that to be honored as a First Amendment Assembly in the midst of a worldwide pandemic? Fuck outta here with that headass nonsense. Apparently context and logic exit your brain the moment you start thinking alt-right.
- 2021 October 29, u/_bagonme_, “POV you're in an interview and,for the 600th time, a student asks about global health opportunities”, in Reddit[7], r/premed, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- Some applicants r so brilliant on paper but so headass irl
- 2022 January 20, u/BlindWillieJohnson, “[Schefter] Dak Prescott has been fined $25,000 for his postgame comments related to the game officials, per source.”, in Reddit[8], r/nfl, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- Definitely one of the most headass things I've heard out of a player in recent years
- 2022 August 6, u/Nil_thirteen, “Who Is Alex Jones? || cw: gun violence, doxxing”, in Reddit[9], r/CuratedTumblr, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- For the longest time, I thought Alex Jones was a comedian, because I reasoned no-one could possibly believe something as Headass as the "chemicals in the water are turning the frogs gay."
- 2023 June 12, u/Skeezie69, “i'm going straight to hell for this one”, in Reddit[10], r/XXXTENTACION, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
- Not really an offensive meme. Just headass asf.