n.
- The rear part: the rear end of a car.
- Informal. The buttocks.
| Dictionary: rear end |
| Idioms: rear end |
1.
The back part of anything, especially a vehicle, as in There's a large dent in the rear end of the car.
2.
The buttocks, as in I'm afraid these pants don't fit my rear end. The noun rear alone has been used in both these senses, the first since the late 1700s and the second since the
mid-1900s. The addition of
end occurred in the first half of the 1900s.
| WordNet: rear end |
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Synonyms: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
| backside | |
| stern | |
| rear-end |
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