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Plural of backside

regular plural

The plural of backside is backsides.

Forms of backside

Singularbackside /ˈbækˌsaɪd/
Pluralbacksides
Countablecountable

Backsides in a sentence

  • Full frontal nudity is out, but both female and male backsides are a familiar sight.1972 June 5, “Black, White and Blue”, in Time. From the entry full frontal nudity
  • The Byzantines, wrote Robert of Clari, hooted and jeered from the battlements, "and let down their clouts and showed them their backsides."1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 33. From the entry clout
  • CELLULITE — the dimpled, uneven skin that mars the backsides and thighs of women everywhere — is a scourge to bikini-wearers and a squelcher of lights-on romps in bed.2009 June 25, Catherine Saint Louis, “Treating Cellulite? It’s Still There”, in New York Times. From the entry squelcher

Meaning of backside

  1. noun The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly.
  2. noun The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.
  3. noun A person's buttocks.

Full definition of backside

Questions about the plural of backside

What is the plural of backside?
The plural of backside is backsides.
Is backside countable?
Backside is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backside (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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