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see also Anus

The buttocks, though among the largest muscles in the human body, are systematically ignored as entries in standard thesauri. Ass is an American derivation of the Old English slang word ass (for buttocks). Arse is the term used in the U.K.

achers, acre, after part, ampersand, anatomy, archer, arm cheeks, arse ass, assteriors, BA, back, back parts, backland, backside, backway, balcony, basement, batti, beam, beautocks, behind, bim, bippy, biscuits, blind cupid, blot, bogy, bom, bombosity, bomsey, boo-boo, boody, bootie, booty, bosom of the pants, bottle and glass, bottom, botty, breech, broad beam, bubble butt, bucket, bum, bumbo, bummy, bump, bumper kit, bunchy, buns, buns aplenty, butt, butter, caboose, cake, camera obscura, can, canister set, catastrophe, cheeks, chips, chuff, clunes, cooler, corybungus, croup, crumpet, crupper, cul, culo, cupcakes, daily mail, date, derriere, differential, dinger, dish, dock, dokus, double jug, double juggs, drop, duff, dummock, duster, Dutch dumplings, English muffins, fanny, fat ass, fife and drum, flankey, flanks, fleshy part of the thigh, fud, fun, fundament, fundamental features, fundillo, gazeet, gazonga, gazooney, gluteal region, glutes, gluteus maximus, gluton, Greek side (the), hams, handlebars of love, hangover, hard-ass, haunch, haunches, heinie, hind, hind end, hinder end, hinder parts, hindside, hinterland, honey rolls, hootenanny, Hugh Jass, hunkers, jacksy pardy, jeer, jibs, jubilee, juff, jutland, kabedis, kazoo, keel, keester, keister, la-la, labonza, lard ass, latter end, limb, little Mary, luds, male tail, meat pillows, moon, mottob, mudflaps, nachas, nates, nockandro, North Pole, oil bags, paddies, parking place, parts behind, pod, poop, pooper, posteriors, postern, prat, prats, pressed ham, promontories, quoit, rass, rear, rear end, rosey, rounders, royal buns, rum, rumble seat, rumdadum, rump, rumpus, rumpus delecti, rusty dusty, saddle leather, scut, seat, seat of the pants, sess, set of pairs, sit-me-down, sit-upon, sitter, sitting room, smallers, sotting, south end, speedo boy, spread, squatter, stern, sugar cookies, Sunday face, tail, toby, tocks, tokus, toosh, tooshie, toute, tuches, tushie, twin bills, under-arm, underside, yeastful

Bruce of Los Angeles, U.S., c. 1960. (Thomas Waugh Collection)

BA: “bare ass.”

“Baby Got Back” was a number 1 hit for Sir Mix-A-Lot in 1992.

Bubble butt: modern-day American term for a perfectly rounded ass.

Bum: Middle English term for buttocks; from the Dutch bom.

Corybungus: Polari for butt.

Daily mail: rhymes with tail.

Heinie: 20th-century American term for hind end.

Glutes: jock abbreviation for gluteus, from the Greek gloutos for buttock.

Jacksy: a contemporary British slang term for anus.

Mottob: an example of slang derived from backward spelling.

Tokus (also tochas, tockus): from Yiddish for buttocks.

Yeastful: an oblique reference to buns.

To expose your buttocks: do a moon job; flash your butt/bum; hang a moon; moon; red eye.