[Ads-l] Kevin Hart speaks:

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

> 
> “I was haul-assing out of there!”
> 
> Sigh! Once upon a time, one would have said,
> 
> “I was hauling ass out of there.”
> 
> Oh, well. At least as far back as ca.1960, GI’s were already no longer “grabbing ass.” They were “grab-assing,” instead.
> 


Going off memory here, but I think that one of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman/R. Lee Ermey's insults in "Full Metal Jacket" was "grab-asstic piece of shit".


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