English

Noun

hindquarter ‎(plural hindquarters)

1. Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
2. (in the plural) The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment.
   • 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:

     While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.

3. (metonymically, derogatory, chiefly in the plural) Human behind, butt.

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References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967