Meaning of kick ass and take names | Babel Free

Definitions

To beat someone in a competition, fight, or other situation.

Canada, US, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar

Examples

“We kick ass and take names and call muster.”

“Hell, I thought, if I were wearing that star, I'd kick ass and take names and have this place turned upside down in a week.”

““Fitz,” Assistant Director Roy McKinnon said the day he summoned me to his office at headquarters in Washington in late 1980, “we need an Irishman to go to Boston to kick ass and take names.””

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