hindquarter
English
Noun
hindquarter (plural hindquarters)
- Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
- (in the plural) The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.
- (metonymically, derogatory, usually in the plural) Human behind, butt.
Translations
rear half of a side of an animal
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hind leg of a quadruped
human behind
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References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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