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/hˈaɪndkwˌɔrtərz/ /hˈaɪndkˌɔrtərz/ Listen

noun

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

hindquarters n.

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

Synonyms: 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.

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

Synonyms: croup, croupe, rump.

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Etymology of 'Hindquarters'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hindquarters" Quotes from Famous Books

... mention of the magical word Nobby had leapt from my unready grasp and trotted across to the fireplace. There, to my disgust and vexation, he fixed the master with an expectant stare, and then sat up upon his hindquarters and begged ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... looks of my mount when Jerry the Whip pulled her out of the stable for me. She was big and brown, with hindquarters that looked like jumping; she was also very dirty and obviously underfed. None the less she was lively enough, and justified Jerry's prediction that "she'd be apt to shake a couple or three bucks out of herself ...

— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross

... a second discharge at this juncture, and the bear now turning bit savagely at its hindquarters as though its ...

— The Outdoor Chums - The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club • Captain Quincy Allen

... tin can—possibly left in a leaky boat before its final hoist to the davits—and gave her a drink, to which he had added a few drops of the whisky. Then he thought of breakfast. Cutting a steak from the hindquarters of the bear, he toasted it on the end of a splinter and found it sweet and satisfying; but when he attempted to feed the child, he understood the necessity of freeing its arms—which he did, sacrificing his left shirtsleeve to cover them. The change and the food stopped its crying for a while, ...

— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson

... beasts mincing along like gigantic peacocks? As we draw nearer we see that they are camels too, each bearing a load of sword-bladed leaves, which hang down over their hindquarters exactly like the folded fan-tail of a peacock. Upon my word I never noticed it before, but a camel walks just like a peacock, with the same hesitating "Don't-care-a-hang-for-you" stride. The bundles so arranged hide the animals' hind legs and ...

— Round the Wonderful World • G. E. Mitton

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