heinie

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/ˈhaɪni/

noun

The buttocks.

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Meanings

heinie1

nounheinie (plural heinies)

plural heinies · alternative hiney · alternative heiny

  1. USslangThe buttocks.

    2001, Stephen Coonts, America: Jake Grafton, Book 9, 2013, unnumbered page, “I hope you’re right,” Jake said, “because if you aren’t, Jacob Lee Grafton, we’ve been betting our heinies for a lot of years. One more big bet won’t make any difference.”

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    Hey there, people, I'm Bobby Brown They say I'm the cutest boy in town My car is fast, my teeth is shiny I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie

    1978, Frank Zappa, “Bobby Brown”

    She had spent enough time kissing heinies to wear her lips right off. And Shelby Symington didn't like kissing heinies. Down in Atlanta, where she was from, people used to line up to kiss hers.

    1992, Olivia Goldsmith, The First Wives Club, page 200

    But Leandro simply could not reconcile himself to the thought of her taking all the risk to save both their heinies.

    2007, Sarah Mayberry, Hot for Him, page 68

Heinie2

proper noun
  1. USA diminutive form of Heinrich, or its English cognate Henry, sometimes applied to a person of (real or supposed) German heritage.

    Heinie^([Heinie Zimmerman]) played with the Cubs from 1907 thru 1916, as a third baseman.

    2010, Wayne Mausser, Chicago Cubs Facts and Trivia, Third Edition, page 27
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    Henry "Heinie" Manush,^([Heinie Manush]) yet another outfield prospect, joined the Tigers in 1923, having impressed management with his outstanding Western League batting average of .375 the previous season. Major league pitching proved no mystery to Heinie either, as he connected for a .334 batting average in 1924, his freshman season.

    1999, William Martin Anderson, The Detroit Tigers, page 48

    Lieutenant Colonel Harry C. “Heinie” Aderholt,^([Harry C. Aderholt]) who was born and raised in Birmingham, had been with the CIA since the Korean War and now commanded clandestine air operations out of Okinawa and Thailand. Heinie Aderholt knew most of the Alabama Guard pilots.

    2011, Warren Trest, Donald B. Dodd, Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard's Covert Role at the Bay of Pigs, page 27
nounHeinie (plural Heinies)

plural Heinies

  1. USslangA German, especially a German soldier.

    "Let's go get them heinies, Sergeant," I challenged, with forced good cheer.

    2005, John B. Babcock, Taught to Kill, page 99
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    The Heinies had run off. We were suspicious; the boys were a little nervous because in a hedgerow we didn't know where our friends and foes were. Suddenly Bud said, “Damn, there's a Heinie over there. There's his helmet!”

    2009, John Wayne Gorman, Dorothy Gorman Yundt, Patrick Quinn, Compass: U.S. Army Ranger, European Theater, 1944-45, page 58

    At the outcry of “Heinies!" Gaul jumped out of the window and bolted for the woods.

    2009, Sonya Jason, Maria Gulovich, OSS Heroine of World War II, page 131

Origin

heinie · noun

From a corruption of *hindie, for *behindie (“behind, rear end, hindward parts”), equivalent to hind + -ie. Perhaps influenced in some way by Heinie (“a German”).

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Heinie · proper noun, noun

From Heinrich (“German given name”) + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

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APA

heinie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heinie

MLA

“heinie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heinie. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heinie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heinie.

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