buttock
Americannoun
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Usually buttocks.
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(in humans) either of the two fleshy protuberances forming the lower and back part of the trunk.
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(in animals) the rump.
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Nautical. Sometimes buttocks. the aftermost portion of a hull above the water line and in front of the rudder, merging with the run below the water line.
noun
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either of the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump See also gluteus
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the analogous part in some mammals
Other Word Forms
- buttocked adjective
Etymology
Origin of buttock
before 1000; Middle English buttok, Old English buttuc. See butt 1, -ock
Example Sentences
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ICE officials acknowledged that Ayala-Uribe died at the Victorville hospital while waiting for surgery for an abscess on his buttock.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2025
To stop the infection from moving through her body, they cut dead tissue out of an area almost covering her entire left buttock.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2025
Surgically speaking, a BBL is basically fat grafting, in which fat is moved from one location to your body to your buttock area.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2023
British journalist Nigel Ely wrote a 2017 book about a chunk of Saddam’s left buttock that he pried off the statue.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2023
“Only time I’ve ever seen Dad as angry as Mum. Fred reckons his left buttock has never been the same since.”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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