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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
2: the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks [syn: hindquarters, croup, croupe, rump]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. the hind legs and adjoining parts of a quadruped.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also hind quarters The hindquarters of a four-legged animal are its back part, including its two back legs. N-PLURAL: oft with poss