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rump

noun as in bottom, posterior of animal or human

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More unusual were the labels torn from the front of meat packages — tenderloins, rump roasts, for example — and pasted to the inside of one kitchen cabinet.

A few hundred yards from yesterday’s turnaround point, a scraggly, blond grizzly was scratching his rump on a concrete guardrail.

He called her “a silly chattering windbag, an infernal liar, a conceited, gushing, rump-wagging, blethering ass.”

Whether the vote in a rump referendum over the weekend genuinely reflected public opinion in the eastern-most regions is doubtful.

According to SEC filings, it is this rump company which will be left with liability for any crimes.

The House GOP rump is once again running the show, leaving John Boehner scrambling and donors increasingly exasperated.

The GOP today is a rump amalgamation of plutocrats and the people who service their air conditioning.

A remnant of the long parliament assembled during the anarchy, and has been termed the rump.

In the evening, bonfires were made, but nothing to the great number that was heretofore at the burning of the Rump.

The fat of the rump or tail is considered a great delicacy, and in hot climates resembles oil, and in colder, suet.

Dr. Boothroyd renders one of the foregoing passages, "the large, fat tail entire, taken clear to the rump."

The first of these characters consists in the rump being bare, on which are natural callosities peculiar to those parts.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rump, such as: backside, back, behind, breech, bum, and butt.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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