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Americans; I am trying to understand the subtlety and nuance of your expression "to haul ass".

Does it mean "to hurry"? Or more "to move under strain"?

Or something else?

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[โ€“] NateNate60@lemmy.world 25 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

It seems like others have already given the definition, but I do want to introduce you to the wonderful thing that is Wiktionary.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/haul_ass

It's part of the same project as Wikipedia, and it has a very comprehensive compendium of definitions for slang terms.

[โ€“] helix@feddit.org 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Urban dictionary for academics

[โ€“] NateNate60@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Urban Dictionary for people who actually want to know what words mean

[โ€“] oeuf@slrpnk.net 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Awesome, I didn't know it know had slang ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] NateNate60@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

In my opinion Wiktionary is probably the best English dictionary on the planet and probably the best English to other language dictionary as well.