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/hˈaɪndkwˌɔrtərz/ /hˈaɪndkˌɔrtərz/ Listen

Hindquarters

noun

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks. Synonyms: croup, croupe, rump.

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"Hindquarters" Quotes from Famous Books

... prompt action, his gazing kinswoman would have come into collision with the hindquarters of a white horse which Napoleon's Mameluke held by the bridle; the animal in its trappings of green velvet and gold stood almost under the arcade, some ten paces behind the rest of the horses in ...

— A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac

... to rise, got half to his feet, screamed, and fell over. Something about his hindquarters had been wrenched or torn or broken. Slade swore furiously and jerked out his revolver to fire repeatedly into the body of the struggling beast. The fourth shot ...

— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet

... it on the 19th, and on the following day advanced to reconnoitre it closely. The gunners of the town, seeing a number of officers approaching, fired, and with so good an aim that a cannonball carried off the hindquarters of the horse the king was riding. A cry of alarm and consternation burst from the officers, but their delight was great when the king rose to his feet, covered with dust and blood indeed, ...

— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty

Words linked to "Hindquarters" : keister, trunk, body, bird, torso, body part, haunch, quadruped, hind end