back-side

Noun

backside (plural backsides)

1. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly
   • I gazed uncomprehendedly at the unfinished backside of the wall of the next room and wondered what had happened to my face.1987 June 17, Vic Bubbett, “Rambling Reflections: When a ‘red telephone call’ comes in, it can change one’s life forever and ever”, in The Dothan Progress, volume 16, number 48, Dothan, Ala., →OCLC...
2. 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.

   Synonyms:

   backhouse

3. (euphemistic) A person's buttocks.
   • Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.

   Synonyms:

   rear

4. (obsolete) The back side of a page: a verso.

   Synonyms:

   verso

5. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
   • ...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse...1645, John Milton, Colasterion, page 26
6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

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