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backside
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Word definitions for backside in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from back (adj.) + side (n.). In the specific sense of "rump, buttocks" it is first recorded c.1500.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB get ▪ They should get off their backsides and let us see what they intend to do about it. ▪ Tim opened his mouth to tell him to get off his idle backside , and closed it again. ▪ Sitting there, day in, day out, hardly ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The side of something that is opposite the front. 2 The buttocks.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel" [syn: rear , back end ] [ant: front ] 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backside \Back"side`\ (b[a^]k"s[imac]d`), n. [Back, a. + side.] The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal. Note: Backside (one word) was formerly used of the rear part or side of any thing or place, but in such senses is now two words.
Usage examples of backside.
When she reached the top of another erotic wave, she dug her heels into his backside and smashed her pelvis against him, taking Arian into the deepest level she could possibly achieve.
That old man, that father of hers, half-conscious from driving and sleeping, dogging it behind the wheel while she was getting her backside and her brains banged out in every two-bed twitchery along the Great Divide.
Agent Brakeman wiped the tip of his dusty finger on the backside of his knee.
Gently patting her naked backside with the broadest part of the rod, he at last drew back his arm and swept it majestically over the velvety surfaces.
Secondly, I had grown accustomed to the sight of a few cows tied up in a cobbled byre with wooden partitions and an oil lamp, and now I was gazing down a long avenue of concrete under blazing electric light with a seemingly endless succession of bovine backsides protruding from tubular metal standings.
The palms of his hands slid over and down her backside, cupping her derriere to bring her up to him as he plunged wholly into her.
A fat chunk of lead knocked Diu off his feet, opening his chest before it tore through his backside.
He dropped into the saddle and as his backside slapped against the leather Drumfire jumped forward and bore him away at full gallop.
I had tucked myself in by the bed, squatting on a chair which had been ergonomically designed to support the back, cushion the knees and drill little holes in the backside.
This time, without any warning, I drew back my arm and dealt her a cut right across the fleshiest part of her backside, but in a diagonal way, from right to left and giving the whip the slightest possible flick of my wrist as I concluded the stroke.
Deaf to her pitiful pleadings, I placed myself in position to command her backside, raised the whip, and gave her a cut right across the fleshiest part.
Lenz had, freakishly enough, ended up her human pinballing with her bare and unspeakably huge backside wedged tight in the open window of the potty, so forcefully ensconced into the recesstacle that she was unable to extricate, and the bus continued on its northward sojourn the rest of the way up 24 with Mrs.
The mechanical working side of Kline Station, to be sure, like the backside of a tapestry that probably made a fine show from some more intended perspective.
I struggled hard, kicking and kneeing at him, and he lost his grip, lost his balance, and fell on his backside.
There was something meanspirited about its backside, and the entrance turned out to be worse.