backside

noun

1. 1

   The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly

   I gazed uncomprehendedly at the unfinished backside of the wall of the next room and wondered what had happened to my face.

2. 2

   The back side of anything, the part opposite its front The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.

   The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti.

3. 3

   The back side of anything, the part opposite its front A person's buttocks.

   Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.

   With an arrowe so broad, He shott him into the backe-syde.

   Our toilet was an outside netty shared between two or three families, where you sat on a hole and hoped the cat wouldn't jump at your backside.

4. 4

   obsoleteThe back side of anything, the part opposite its front The back side of a page: a verso.

5. 5

   figurativeThe reverse or opposite of anything.

   ...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse...

6. 6

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

adjective

1. 1

   Approaching an obstacle backward.

Forms

plural

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