keister

noun

keis·​ter ˈkē-stər How to pronounce keister (audio)
ˈkī-
variants or less commonly keester
plural keisters also keesters
informal
: buttocks, rear end sense 2
… Borg took a spectacular dive, landing on his keister.Curry Kirkpatrick
Four hours ago I was freezing my keister in the wilderness. Now I'm browsing the entrees in a French-inspired restaurant.Andrew Nelson
"… a very easygoing guy with a finely honed intelligence, which I didn't realize until he whipped my keister in Trivial Pursuit."Kenneth Turan

Examples of keister in a Sentence

he fell right on his keister in front of the whole crowd
Recent Examples on the Web
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With fearless, ferocious leads Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley willing to let the camera chop them into chunks of flesh — lips, calves, hair, wrinkles and, yes, keisters — for a film that prioritizes shocks over plot, get ready for a whole lot of their blood and guts too. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024 According to a growing body of research, the health problems associated with sitting—heart disease and diabetes, to name two—aren’t simply the result of these extensive periods on our keisters. Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024 Before you get started, position your buck so its head is a little uphill of its keister, if possible, and then turn him belly-up. Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023 In his 15 years as MacGruber, a hapless special ops agent who only occasionally saves the day, Will Forte has attempted to violently dispatch his enemies with rubber bands, Q-tips and a stalk of celery wedged up his keister. Amy Nicholson, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2021 Slim for people who have the characteristic nonexistent keister of the bony Nordic. Star Tribune, 23 July 2021 Brayden McNabb took offense that Joel Eriksson Ek was hanging around the crease as Vegas goalie Marc-Andre Fleury covered the puck, so the Golden Knights defenseman knocked the Wild center on his keister late in the second period. Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 4 May 2021 Another item on the mind-blowing lineup of Goop products is a device to spurt hot coffee up your keister. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2020 This next-gen lounger takes the popular Hondo chair design and marries it to a collapsible frame that can still cradle 500 pounds and a keister as wide as 24 inches. T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 7 Apr. 2020

Word History

Etymology

English slang keister satchel

First Known Use

circa 1930, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of keister was circa 1930

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“Keister.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keister. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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