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backsideback‧side /ˈbæksaɪd/ noun [countable] informal - Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside.
- Mid-forties and creaking with crime-fatigue and cynicism, his backside hits the bed hard.
- Now we were both on our backsides in the mud.
- Somehow he had landed on his backside and then had felt his tailbone knock the earth harder than was safe.
VERB► get· They should get off their backsides and let us see what they intend to do about it.· Tim opened his mouth to tell him to get off his idle backside, and closed it again.· Sitting there, day in, day out, hardly able to get off his backside. ► kick· He was woken some time later by being kicked in the backside quite painfully. ► get off your backside- Sitting there, day in, day out, hardly able to get off his backside.
- They should get off their backsides and let us see what they intend to do about it.
► a kick up the arse/backside/pants etc- He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.
- I think I just needed a kick up the backside.
- They like to see officialdom and the upper classes getting a kick up the backside.
1the part of your body that you sit on SYN bottom2get off your backside to start doing something or taking action, instead of not doing anything → be a pain in the backside at pain1(3) |