backside
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And have the most important play happen while some latecomer blocks your view with his backside while trying to find his seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
It might be a game where Arsenal need a little kick up the backside, though.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
"I gave myself a kick up the backside and said I would make an album, a real bedroom project," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
These days, I notice fuchsia bursts of bougainvillea instead of my mushy backside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
But now she was crossing the street and running wildly only to go down at the curb and standing and going down again, with a bumped backside, completely unsteady, now that her momentum was gone.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Perhaps part of the reason for the silence is that people aren’t getting the information out of Iran that they need to get them off their backsides and into the streets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
“We are working our backsides off, we feel unfulfilled, and we think, ‘For what?’”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026
It doesn't matter that this is at Old Trafford, because we will still kick their backsides there anyway!
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
To its embarrassment, the Katy ISD Board of Trustees realized that its “nudity” bans had extended to several elementary school library books depicting cartoon backsides.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
“Caleb and Bobby Gene Franklin, get your backsides in here right this minute!”
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
