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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hindquarters
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both animals had huge shrapnel wounds on their hindquarters.
▪ Gentle pressure over the hindquarters as shown may first be necessary to evoke the required response.
▪ In a trot the forequarters and hindquarters are mutually co-ordinated while the back remains level, firm and relatively motionless.
▪ Instead of scraping away at its hindquarters it can now kill the rabbit.
▪ Larger animals with the speed and power to escape are grappled by the hindquarters until the leopard can seize the throat.
▪ The poor creature lifted itself up on its wobbly front legs and then dragged its hindquarters behind it.
▪ The Rat's eyes had grown redder, and its hindquarters were bunching.
▪ Then Herb, Junior, had taken his bow and arrow and wounded one of the beasts in the hindquarters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hindquarters

hindquarters \hindquarters\ n.

  1. the fleshy part of the human body at the back of the hip, on which a person sits; teh buttocks.

    Syn: buttocks, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass.

  2. the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks.

    Syn: croup, croupe, rump.

Wiktionary
hindquarters

n. (plural of hindquarter English)

WordNet
hindquarters
  1. n. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

  2. the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks [syn: croup, croupe, rump]

Usage examples of "hindquarters".

Kantor was far more muscular, his head perhaps a bit blockier, his neck arched and strong, his hindquarters and chest definitely deeper and with fantastically developed muscles.

Because your people have four arms and are striped, and others have goatlike hindquarters, and others are hermaphroditic pastel-colored female shapes with tails, or half cat, or snake, or hairy ape, or so on.

Gray One was already teasing the older wolf mercilessly, romping around her grayed hindquarters and throwing himself on his back in the mud when Gray Shona nipped him smartly.

Their growls were now fearful, their formerly pricked up ears flat to their heads and their stubs of tails plastered to their hindquarters.

The hindquarters were as powerful as the shoulders, though the feet there were more hooflike than clawlike.

Every time he snuggled down in his favorite position to dish the dirt, elbows on workbench, hindquarters stuck out and usually bristling with tools shoved in his pockets, furry chin in scarred hands, Anna was charmed and tickled.

Dogs barked, and Thoughtless took a swipe at one scrawny yapper with his spear, nicking the poor creature in its hindquarters.

The noses and tongues of the bison were saved-choice delicacies along with livers -- then the carcasses were cut into seven pieces: two hindquarters, two forequarters, the mid-section halved, and the huge neck.

Each beast had the head, wings, and forequarters of a giant eagle, while the tail and hindquarters were those of a huge lion.

The soft bullet had shattered the spinal column a few inches forward of the pelvis, paralysing the hindquarters, and the blood pumped gently from the wound in a bright rivulet down the pale beige flank.

After five frustrating minutes-during which he tried not to remember how simple it had been for Ana-he managed to hold the dog's hindquarters down.

Vines of bindweeds had looped themselves about its hindquarters, as if such fragile ties had grown to hold it prisoner.

You offer your hindquarters a Directory chauffeuse as a Louis XIV bergere.

He produced a bundle of his own and unwrapped the spindly hindquarters of a butchered black sheep—.

He produced a bundle of his own and unwrapped the spindly hindquarters of a butchered black sheepthe wage he had earned from Eumaeus' brother-in-law for an afternoon's work fixing a paddock.