backasswards, adv. N. Amer. slang (humorous and euphem.).
Brit. /bakˈaswədz/, U.S. /ˌbækˈæswərdz/
[Euphemistic or humorous alteration of ass-backwards adv. and adj. Compare backassward adj.]
= ass-backwards adv. Cf. bass-ackwards adv.
| 1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye 53 You always do everything backasswards... No wonder you're flunking the hell out of here. 1976 Rolling Stone 7 Oct. 8 Rolling Stone stapled!.. No more worries about friends turning pages upside down and backasswards. 1988 M. Bishop Unicorn Mountain (1989) xii. 129 That's so backasswards stupid I can hardly believe you said it. 2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 1 July 21/3 ‘You can't do this thing backasswards,’ says Whitley Bruner, a former CIA station chief in Iraq. |