assload

Whole dang lot

An assload is a large quantity of something, used for vulgar emphasis: I've got an assload of work to finish.

The word intensifies amount the way other crude compounds do—shitload, fuckton.

It's casual and coarse, appearing mostly in speech or informal writing.

quantity

ton

Heavy mass unit

truckload · buttload · shitload · crapload · fuckton · metric ton · pile · mass · bunch · stack

exaggeration

hyperbole

Rhetorical extreme exaggeration

burden

weight

Measure of heaviness

  • strainExcessive stretching force
  • stressPressure, mental or vocal
Opposites
quantity/amount

assloadnothing

Not any thing

none · zilch · nada · squat · smidgen

Family

load, loaded, overload, ass, asses

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13