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BigBoy1337. 553 3 6 9. Kicking butt is just as impolite as kicking ass. – ab2. Mar 16, 2018 at 19:10. giving me a hard time is one colloquial alternative.... – Lambie. Mar 16, 2018 at 19:12. depending on the context you could use "knocking them down" or "knocking it out of the park".
'Kick Ass 103' would work as well. But 'Trounce 103' or 'Dominate 103' , to take two good suggestions below, would, in my opinion, leave a reader rather puzzled as to what I was trying to say - about the only thing those two evoke are edgy website user names.
It appears ass kicking itself dates back to the early '40s and the phrase having as much chance as a one-legged man in a mule/butt/ass-kicking contest. The similar expression kick in the pants dates to the late 1800s. Edit 4/15/11: I just antedated the 1965 reference by 11 years. This is from John Oliver Killens' 1954 novel Youngblood:
User "UnequivocallyAwesome" at Urban Dictionary claims it is a form of "Kick ass and ask questions later," which in turn is taken from "Shoot first, ask questions later," but UA has only this one entry and it has almost half as many downvotes as upvotes.
I'm going to kick your behind. From NOAD: behind noun. 1 informal the buttocks: sitting on her behind. Still softer would be. derrière |ˌderēˈe (ə)r|. noun informal. euphemistic term for a person's buttocks. If you want to go softer than that, perhaps you had better leave off altogether the notion of "kicking" anything.
kick ass {or (euphem[istically]} butt or tail} 1. Esp. Esp. Mil[itary] to enforce one's authority or otherwise enforce oneself mercilessly or pugnaciously; (also) (prob. the orig. sense) to subdue others by beatings; (hence) to play the bully; in phr. kick ass and take names to do so with great determination or success.—also used fig.—usu ...
The phrase "kick ass" is a longstanding idiom that generally means someone is doing something really well, excelling, or, in your case, being awesome. If you're looking for more information about it, thefreedictionary describes the phrase "kick ass/kicking ass" as: Idioms: kick ass/butt Vulgar Slang
The saying is really 'whipping ass', as in to literally hit someone's ass with a whip, the way a parent disciplines a child. to whip (1) : to strike with a slender lithe implement (such as a lash or rod) especially as a punishment (2) : spank b : to drive or urge on by or as if by using a whip c : to strike as a lash does Source. ass (æs)
6. Kickassiness uses the often-sarcastic -iness ending (compare "truthiness", "maverickiness", and the phonetically similar "helpy"); so, analogously to those words, it gives the impression that something is trying to pose as kickass but is not succeeding. I'd probably go with "kickassness" or "kickassitude" if that was not the desired impression.
The expression "a kick in the ass" (or, more mildly, "a kick in the pants") is sometimes used to refer to jumpstarting an individual, or getting a situation back on the right track, as in: "Our son needs to get a job!" "Yes, he needs a good kick in the pants."