Word.ws English Dictionary

buttocker

buttocker noun: a worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.

Noun

buttocker (plural buttockers)

  1. (historical) A worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
  2. One who uses the cross-buttock throw.
    • It is a chip, however, always fraught with peril, as the slack hold of the buttocker, if he misses his aim, enables his opponent to gain a firmer grip, which he is certain to make the best use of in the commanding position in which he finds himself.1889, Walter Armstrong, Wrestling, page 199

Forms of buttocker

pluralbuttockers

Origin of buttocker

From buttock + -er.

Questions about buttocker

What does buttocker mean?
Buttocker means a worker who gets coal off at a longwall face.
What part of speech is buttocker?
Buttocker is a noun.
What is the plural of buttocker?
The plural of buttocker is buttockers.

Words near buttocker in the dictionary

  1. buttock lines
  2. buttock mail
  3. buttock mails
  4. buttock-clenching
  5. buttocked
  6. buttocker
  7. buttockers
  8. buttocking
  9. buttockings
  10. buttockless
  11. buttocklike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: buttocker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “buttocker.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/buttocker. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.