To be out of order or reversed; very confused or mixed up; completely fouled up or wrong.
'Ass' refers to the rear end or buttocks, and 'backwards' means reversed. The phrase suggests that something is happening the wrong way, with the rear coming first. ('Ass' is an impolite word, so be careful using this phrase.)
Synonym: snafu
1) Jeb, you're riding that donkey ass backwards! Turn around!
2) You installed these windowsass backwards - the screens are supposed to be on the outside!
Beyond the phrase 'being backward'. It means lacking any insight, intelligence, correct action, respect to human rights, cultural sophistication, and most of all common sense.
Having a parked car on the lawn while drunk on a couch also on the lawn ass backwards.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.
After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.