Usually means: Doing things in reverse order.
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  1. ass-backwards: Merriam-Webster
  2. ass-backwards: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ass-backwards, ass-backwards: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ass-backwards: Wordnik
  5. ass-backwards: Wiktionary
  6. ass-backwards: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. ass-backwards: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ass-backwards: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (ass-backwards)

adjective:  (colloquial) Oriented backwards, particularly after a mishap.
adjective:  (idiomatic, colloquial) Hopelessly misguided; contrary to what is normal, expected, or logical; having taken the utterly wrong choice.
adverb:  (colloquial) Moving backwards, that is, rear end first.
adverb:  (idiomatic, colloquial) In a hopelessly misguided manner; in a manner contrary to what is normal, expected, or logical.

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