Search for crossword answers and clues
Something to fall back on?
Answer for the clue "Something to fall back on? ", 6 letters:
heinie
Alternative clues for the word heinie
Word definitions for heinie in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Heine , as a typical name of a German man, 1904, North American slang, from pet form of common German masc. proper name Heinrich (see Henry ). Brought to Europe in World War I by Canadian soldiers (British soldiers called the adversary Fritz ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context slang English) The buttocks.
Usage examples of heinie.
On 8 May 1924, Joe Howard was in Heinie Jacobs’ bistro on South Wabash Avenue, explaining to some acquaintances that all dagoes were cowards, when an overweight young Italian walked in through the door.
Then he went off to France to fight the Heinies, fell out of an airplane while on a reconnaissance mission (or so the story has it), and was killed.
When the Heinies go home tonight, we must catch up on home town gossip.
I wish I could tell her where…but if I stuck my head up over the parapet, I might see some heinies if one of them didn’t see me first.
She was totally vulnerable, yet she was also mooning this austere woman with her naked heinie.
Heinie had not scrupled to say that Rango was a lot more use on the show and a lot better person, even though not human, than a little floozie who just stood up and let a dummkopf of a husband throw knives at her.
Heinie Faust (under the pseudonym Max Brand) produced hundreds of Westerns in his career and sold millions of copies of his work, by writing only two hours a day.