HINDQUARTERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hindquarters mean? 

• HINDQUARTERS (noun)
  The noun HINDQUARTERS has 2 senses:

1. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

2. the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

  Familiarity information: HINDQUARTERS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HINDQUARTERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush

Context example:

are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Hypernyms ("hindquarters" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("hindquarters" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

croup; croupe; hindquarters; rump

Hypernyms ("hindquarters" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hindquarters"):

haunch (the loin and leg of a quadruped)

Holonyms ("hindquarters" is a part of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)

 Context examples 

A smaller sized lagomorph, the Dutch belted rabbit has black hindquarters, ears and black patches around the eyes while the feet, face, and front half of the body are white.

(Dutch Belted Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus)