Rump

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The fleshy hindquarters of an animal.
  • n. A cut of beef or veal from the rump.
  • n. The buttocks.
  • n. The part of a bird's back nearest the tail.
  • n. The last or inferior part.
  • n. A legislature having only a small part of its original membership and therefore being unrepresentative or lacking in authority.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the hindquarters of an animal
  • n. a cut of meat from the rump
  • n. the buttocks
  • n. remnant, as in rump parliament
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.
  • n. Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.
  • n. The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The tail-end of an animal; the hinder parts; the backside or buttocks; technically, the gluteal or uropygial region; the uropygium. See sacrum and uropygium.
  • n. Figuratively. the fag-end of a thing.
  • To turn one's back upon.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
  • n. fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round
  • n. the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
  • Equivalent
    the rump   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    remainder   
    Variant
    beef   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fag-end    remnant    round   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hump    Trump    bump    chump    clump    crump    dump    frump    grump    gump   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    haunch    buttock    sirloin    backside    flank    thigh    hindquarters    torso    shin    loin