assclown

ass +‎ clown

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæsˌklaʊn/

assclown (plural assclowns)

1. (Canada, US, slang, vulgar) A jerk; a buffoon; a person who is inept or ill-behaved to the point of being found laughable by others
   • 1996 August 25, Holstrom, Ben, “Re: Birth Certificate for Citizenship”, in misc.immigration.usa, Usenet‎, retrieved 2018-10-04, message-ID <3220c9cc.5271157@nntp.ix.netcom.com>:

     This newsgroup--misc.immigration.usa--has a wide range of posters, some of which have legitimate concerns about legal immigration. Do you like being the AssClown. Let these people be, let them ask their immigration question free from your xenophobic harassments.

2. (Canada, US, slang, vulgar) A jerk; a buffoon; a person who uses his/her nature to bring humor to others, but ends up being the butt of a joke.
   • 2006, Brad Bauer, Hitting in the Clutch, iUniverse (2006), →ISBN, page 141:

     I'm a little loaded, and this assclown behind me has bumped me four times in a row.

   • 2006, Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds, Three Rivers Press (2006), →ISBN, page 261:

     "Pretentious, ambitionless assclown," I corrected.

   • 2012, Jef With One F, "5 Horrible Lessons Ender's Game Teaches Kids", Houston Press, 19 June 2012:

     Card is a raging homophobic assclown who believes that America should rise up violently and overthrow the government for any hint of support of same-sex marriage.

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