"big-ass" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-big-ass.wav [US] Forms: more big-ass [comparative], most big-ass [superlative]
Etymology: big + -ass Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|big|-ass}} big + -ass Head templates: {{en-adj|head=big-ass}} big-ass (comparative more big-ass, superlative most big-ass)
  1. (vulgar, slang) Very large; especially, very large and also expansive, fat, impressive, muscular, intimidating, or important. Tags: slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-big-ass-en-adj-arQWLQkG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ass Synonyms: great (english: very large), huge, humongous, ; (english: very large plus impressive or important), big old, great, honkin', ;, size, bigass, big ass

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