The degree of measure to which someone came through in a moment of need, crisis, or difficulty. Can also be used in a sports context to acknowledge a moment where a player put on a game-winning performance when the team really needed him or her.
A process of deciding whether you care or have an opinion about any thing, policy, concept, idea, etc, by stripping it down to its most basic parts. If you are motivated enough to have a position/opinion on any of its parts, then it can be said you give a rat's ass about the topic.
Basically a way of determining whether you give a rat's ass about a specific issue, topic, etc.
Normally, I could give a rat's ass about the New York Yankees. However, since they drafted former Nebraska Cornhusker Joba Chamberlain; I have an interest in them; and how the Yankees are doing passes my rat's ass quotient.
The easier a guy makes his money, and the YOUNGER he is when he does so, and the AMOUNT of money the guy makes, added to how good looking he is, determines his “asshole quotient".(AQ). Therefore:
Jay was a young, good looking, successful man in his early twenties. He thought that the world (including beautiful women being thrown at him on a regular basis) was owed to him. He had a very high A.Q.
The jackass quotient in the NBA is pretty high. If you gave incentive to players shooting from half-court by awarding additional points, you'd probably see them jacking shots up from way downtown.