Definition of backside
:buttocks
—often used in plural
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Examples of backside in a Sentence
our backsides were sore after sitting on those hard benches for so long
Recent Examples of backside from the Web
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Whoever gets back to the artists with their availability in time will have the chance to participate in the project and have a portrait of their backside posted on Instagram.
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There was just taking our lunch box to work to try to save our backsides.
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Hole 8 goes along the backside of the dune, then the ninth tee gives golfers one more high overlook on the lake before heading back inland on the dogleg left par five.
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Bernie Bevis, who operated Maclaren Lodge for a couple years in the early 1970s, brought a moose out from the backside of Moore's Mountain, a round trip of 20 miles.
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Perhaps some critics felt this was the only way to restore some of the darkness in his skin tone: by dropping trou and metaphorically wiping their backsides with Jackson and his album.
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On the heels of our cultural butt love comes news of a new project designed to celebrate the beauty and diversity of the female backside.
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He is believed to be the only NFL quarterback to be photographed totally nude, shown from the backside casually luxuriating on a vacation balcony in a social-media post disseminated by his actress-wife — a picture not easily unseen, by the way.
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Gonyea's father survived the shot to his backside, but his friend did not.
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First Known Use of backside
circa 1500
backside Synonyms
Synonyms
buttocks, behind, booty (also bootie) [slang], bottom, breech, bum, buns, butt, caboose, can, cheeks, derriere (or derrière), duff, fanny, fundament, hams, haunches, heinie [slang], hunkers, keister (also keester) [slang], nates, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tush [slang]Related Words
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Definition of backside for English Language Learners
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: the part of the body that a person sits on
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