English

Adjective
ass-backwards, also ass backwards, ass-backward, ass backward

1. Oriented backwards, particularly after a mishap.

#: The car spun out of control and I ended up ass-backwards in a ditch.

1. Hopelessly misguided; Having taken the wrong choice at every opportunity.

#: No wonder it doesn't work. The whole design is ass-backwards.

Adverb
ass-backwards, also ass backwards, ass-backward, ass backward

1. Moving backwards, that is, ass first.
2. In a hopelessly misguided manner, liable to take the wrong choice at every opportunity.

#: They went at the whole design ass-backwards. No wonder it doesn't work.

Quotations
1966: I got the picture then. Ass backward into the unknown. With the control room at the ship's bottom, it made sense. To a puppeteer, it made sense. — Larry Niven in At the Core collected in Neutron Star (ISBN 0345247949), page 57.
See also
back-assward, back-asswards, backassward, backasswards
bass-ackward, bass-ackwards, bassackward, bassackwards

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