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US
/ˈhaɪndˌkɔɹtɝz, ˈhaɪndˌkwɔɹtɝz/
]
[ UK /hˈaɪndkwɔːtəz/ ]
[ UK /hˈaɪndkwɔːtəz/ ]
NOUN
- the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
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the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
he deserves a good kick in the butt
are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
How To Use hindquarters In A Sentence
- In Greek myth, the Big Dipper asterism represents the hindquarters and tail of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
- Dogs bred to have exaggerated angulation in the hindquarters, extreme pelvic slope, or are poorly muscled, poorly angulated, and narrow in the hips seem more predisposed.
- The difference in weight distribution between forequarters and hindquarters is due to the weight of the head and neck.
- Cats should not be picked up by the scruff of the neck; instead, support the cats hindquarters in one hand and use the other to support its chest.
- Then Herb, Junior, had taken his bow and arrow and wounded one of the beasts in the hindquarters.
- At Hunts Point, five men unload the truck and send the sides of beef to two holding rooms—one for hindquarters and one for forequarters—via a long zip line on four rails. Where's the Beef? A Steak Makes a Long Journey
- Mars, slow-moving below Leo's hindquarters, doubles in brightness from mag 0.2 to -0.6 as its distance plummets from 156 million to 119 million km and its diameter swells to 12 arcsec. Starwatch: The January night sky
- He fit an arrow to his bow and shot the horse in the hindquarters at in the rear as the soldier attempted to mount.
- One boy assumes the head, turning it this way and that, blinking furiously, another boy was in charge of the lion's hindquarters and its wagging tail.
- The pye-dog, its diseased hindquarters shaking, the crewman, his stainless steel cleaver glinting, closed on each other. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
