behinds

Noun

behind (plural behinds)

1. The rear, back-end.
   • This part fits under the behind of the vehicle.
2. (informal) The buttocks, bottom, butt.
   • I was stung on the behind by a wasp.
3. (euphemistic) Synonym of ass (“synecdochic: a person or their body”).
   • Get your lazy behind out of bed!

   Synonyms:

   ass

4. (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
   • A roar from ten thousand throats go up,
     For we've kicked another behind.1880, “The Opening Ball”, in G. Lehmann, editor, Comic Australian Verse, 1975, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, published...
5. (slang) The catcher.
6. In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).

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