Thesaurus results for KEISTER

keister

noun

ˈkē-stər

variants also keester

Definition of keister

slang

as in bum

the part of the body upon which someone sits he fell right on his keister in front of the whole crowd

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Recent Examples of keister So what's the worst part of slogging your keister around? — Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2026 Rose is also perilously up her own keister. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026 Then there is little Point San Pablo Beach, with something rare in the Bay Area – water that doesn’t freeze your keister – with decent swimming at high tide. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025 But once O’Connor put Harley on his keister, Game 3 was never the same. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2025 This mindset predictably glosses over the fact not all people can get off their keister and run errands like that. — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024

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Noun

For families Apart from the family-sized villa estates and kid-friendly menus, Nihi has a host of activities that will please even the youngest beach bums.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2026
And for any bum stuff Ted might want confidentially looked at.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of bum

Noun

Rose Gray played her All Points East festival set with super-sparkled cheeks, while Lady Gaga tested out the season’s trending clavi-cut.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
Lips and cheeks have been hogging all the attention recently, while lids and lashes have been going nearly naked.

— Elle Turner, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of cheeks

Noun

The workers would be fined if their tails were dirty, their satin ears crooked.

— Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Robinhood — Shares of the trading app jumped 15% after Deutsche Bank issued a report pointing to prediction market tail winds for brokers, asset managers and exchanges.

— Darla Mercado, CFP®,Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of tail

Noun

Then, pair a Black Angus rump steak, aged for three weeks in herbed butter and redolent of fresh rosemary (€38), with a glass of a spicy-fruity Barolo from the pioneering Piedmont vintner Chiara Boschis (€22).

— New York Times, New York Times, 16 July 2026
This would create partition on the patriots’ terms, not Britain’s, as 13 contiguous colonies seceded from the rump of the British Empire in North America.

— David Armitage, Washington Post, 26 June 2026

Definition of rump

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