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  • verb Australia, New Zealand, UK, vulgar, slang Simple past tense and past participle of arse. Bothered (as in can't be bothered to...).

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Examples

  • And DC, I can't be "arsed" to keep up with the Four Horsemen or Black Adam...

    Archive 2007-06-01 Brian Hughes 2007

  • And DC, I can't be "arsed" to keep up with the Four Horsemen or Black Adam...

    AWtC Weekly: 6/22/07 Brian Hughes 2007

  • I have done work for government departments because their own staff couldn't be basically "arsed" to do the work despite having the resources and the training.

    Word Magazine - Comments stimpy 2010

  • Olly's Onions: Taoiseach and Obama hold talks, get rat-arsed skip to main | skip to sidebar

    Taoiseach and Obama hold talks, get rat-arsed 2009

  • Nice to see her security work is just as half arsed as her science as she researched the radio transmissions.

    Outcasts: series one, episode seven 2011

  • It's a tricky call to be honest, I mean, I'm sure there have been plenty of people working on games I loved with views I disagree with, isn't it a little half arsed only to bother with Card because he's a more public figure?

    A Complex Shadow SVGL 2009

  • Carry out your editing to the end – to the finest detail – no half arsed efforts

    Taking editing on the chin « Write Anything 2010

  • Now, for those who couldn't be arsed following the link, here's the bit of reading practice I mentioned above.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Another Outspoken Female 2009

  • "That's not fair", they cry like the shit-arsed babies that they are.

    Checkmate Dungeekin 2009

  • Although, you and I could do that with any film if we couldn't be arsed finishing it.

    Ivory Coast v Zambia - as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2012

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  • can't be arsed = can't be bothered

    June 22, 2008