backside
See also: back-side
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backside (plural backsides)
- The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly:
- The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
- The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti.
- (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.
- Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.
- 1992 May 4, The Independent, page 13:
- Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside.
- (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.
- The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
- (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
- 1645, John Milton, Colasterion, page 26:
- ...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse...
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.
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- (outhouse): backhouse (US, Canada); see also Thesaurus:bathroom
- (buttocks): rear; see also Thesaurus:buttocks
- (verso): See verso
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back side of something
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buttocks
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backside (not comparable)
- (board sports) Approaching an obstacle backward
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.
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- French: backside
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- "backside, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Borrowed from English backside.
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backside (plural backsides)