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hindquarter

hindquarter \hindquarter\ n. the back half of a side of meat, from about the twelfth rib back.

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hindquarter

n. 1 Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal. 2 (context in the plural English) The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment. 3 (context metonymy derogatory usually plural English) Human behind, butt.

WordNet
hindquarter

n. the back half of a side of meat

Usage examples of "hindquarter".

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.