Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The buttocks; the rump.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The back part or aspect of anything; the part opposite to the front, or behind that which is presented to a spectator.
- noun Specifically The hind part of an animal; the rump: often (vulgarly) in the plural.
- noun The back premises, back yard, or out-buildings attached to a dwelling; also, the privy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
side of something that isopposite thefront . - noun The
buttocks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the side of an object that is opposite its front
- noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
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Examples
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Wearing pants with words across the backside is a stumbling block.
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On the backside is a huge statue of the sitting Sor Juana that looks much like the space aliens of Roswell, New Mexico.
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On the backside is a huge statue of the sitting Sor Juana that looks much like the space aliens of Roswell, New Mexico.
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She scrambled down like a camel, rising again backside foremost, like a cow, a strange performance, painful, it might be supposed, to the performer, the expression on whose face, however, belied this thought.
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She scrambled down like a camel, rising again backside foremost, like a cow, a strange performance, painful, it might be supposed, to the performer, the expression on whose face, however, belied this thought.
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Patting the backside is how football players ask each other out on dates.
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Don't some of you understand that if you are going to make inferences about motives you need to be sure your backside is protected?
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God knows his backside is big enough to hold one of those DOT signs (full size)
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Can fill the rush lanes and work through the pile, but struggles some to locate the quarterback or ballcarrier in backside pursuit.
USATODAY.com 2005
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Has a consistent motor in backside and downfield pursuit ...
USATODAY.com 2005
bilby commented on the word backside
Two towns in Scotland have this name, one in Banffshire and the other in Aberdeenshire.
January 1, 2008