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kick ass and take names en · VERB
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(Canada, US, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar) To beat someone in a competition, fight, or other situation.
“Fitz,” Assistant Director Roy McKinnon said the day he summoned me to his office at headquarters in Washington in late 1980, “we need an Irishman to go to Boston to kick ass and take names.”
2012, Robert Fitzpatrick, Betrayal, page 17:We kick ass and take names and call muster.
1987, Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, page 394:Hell, I thought, if I were wearing that star, I'd kick ass and take names and have this place turned upside down in a week.
1990, David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman, About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, page 217:
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