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tushes

tushes is the plural of tush.

Meaning of tush

Noun (1)

tush (plural tushes)

  1. (dialectal) A tusk.
    • Perhaps one or two whose lives have patient wings, / And through whose curtains peeps no hellish nose, / No wild-boar tushes, and no mermaid's toes [...].1818, John Keats, To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.
  2. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

Noun (2)

tush (plural tushes)

  1. (US, colloquial) The buttocks.
    • Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler)

Noun (3)

tush (uncountable)

  1. (UK, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

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Questions about tushes

What is tushes the plural of?
Tushes is the plural of tush.

Words near tushes in the dictionary

  1. Tushepaws
  2. tusheries
  3. tusheroon
  4. tusheroons
  5. tushery
  6. tushes
  7. Tusheti
  8. Tushetian
  9. Tushetians
  10. tushie
  11. tushies

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