Meaning of behind | Babel Free

Definitions

1. after, following, in the wake of
2. The rear, back-end.
3. Informal The buttocks.
   Informal
4. behind (on the far side of)
5. The buttocks, bottom, butt.
   informal
6. Informal. The part of one's back on which one rests in sitting:buttock (used in plural), derrière, posterior, rump, seat.
7. beyond
8. A one-point score.
9. the buttocks. a smack on the behind. agterwêreld مُؤَخَّرَه задни части traseiro zadek der Hintern numse; bagdel πισινόςtrasero tagumik باسن takapuoli derrièreישבן कूल्हा stražnjica far bokong, pantat rass, rasskinnar didietro しり 궁둥이 užpakalis dibens punggung achterstebakende, rumpetyłek په کوناتی کی ضربه وهل traseiro dos зад zadok zadnja plat stražnjica bak, stuss บั้นท้าย kıç, popo 屁股 зад, сідниці چوتڑ ، کمر کا پچھلا حصہ mông đít 屁股
10. after (in pursuit of)
11. The catcher.
    slang
12. without someone's knowledge or permission. He sometimes bullies his sister behind his mother's back. agter iemand se rug مِن وَراءِ ظَهْرِهِ، دون عِلْمِهِ без знанието на pelas costas za zády hinter dem Rücken von bag nogens ryg πίσω από την πλάτη κπ. a espaldas de (kellegi) selja taga یواشکی؛ بدون اطلاع شخص toisen selän takana derrière le dos מֵאָחוֹרֵי הַגָב पीठ पीछे iza leđa vki háta mögött tanpa sepengetahuan fara á bakvið e-n; án vitneskju e-s alle spalle di, all'insaputa ～の陰で 누군가의 등 뒤에서...
13. In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
14. adv., prep., detrás, trás, atrás, hacia atrás.
15. In, to, or toward the rear: We walked behind.
16. In a place or condition that has been passed or left: I left my gloves behind.
17. In arrears; late: I fell behind in my payments.
18. Below the standard level; in or into an inferior position: Don't fall behind in class.
19. Slow: My watch is running behind.

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Examples

“This part fits under the behind of the vehicle.”

“She sneaked up on me from behind.”

“I was stung on the behind by a wasp.”

“There was a girl in the mattress factory with me during the war, girl about thirty. A big one, kind of a fat face, big behind to her, big titties, kind of a girl should be human and soft with a man.”

“"So the catheter didn't have anything to do with keeping him from touching himself?" I don't usually go in for euphemisms, but Fineg is a man who says "behind", as in "I have a picture where he bit me in the behind." The catheter, it turns out, was in the chimp's femoral artery (to monitor blood pressure), not his urethra.”

“"The dog got excited, was jumping around inside the boat and then it jumped on the gun. It went off, shooting the [decoy setter] in the buttocks," Box Elder County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Kevin Potter told the Salt Lake Tribune. Twenty-seven rounds of birdshot were removed from the man's behind after the accident.”

“A roar from ten thousand throats go up, For we've kicked another behind.”

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