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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The largest and outermost of the gluteal muscles.
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- noun The largest of the
muscles of eachbuttock . - noun colloquial, humorous The buttocks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the outermost of the three gluteal muscles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin glūteus maximus : glūteus, gluteus + maximus, largest.]
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