haul ass

phrase

informal + impolite

: to move quickly

You'd better haul ass or you'll miss your flight.

… if you get the call from the RuPaul's Drag Race casting team, you need to haul ass down to the Learning Annex and enroll in as many sewing classes as your fingers can take.

—Coleman Spilde

… I'm printing this thing out and I'm supposed to have left already 20 minutes ago. I literally pull it out of the laser printer hot, put a clip on it, and shove it in a gym bag and haul ass to the airport.

—James Cameron, quoted at The Ringer

Word History

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for haul ass

• aulus
• flawless
• lawless
• solace
• squalus