Meanings
keister1
plural keisters · alternative keester · alternative keyster · alternative kiester
- slangA suitcase or satchel.
Tripods, keister and loud talk don't make a pitchman any more than do fine feathers make fine birds.
1942 August 29, Billboard, page 631 more example
Sometimes Mama was too busy to make the daily rounds of the draws and pockets, in which case she gave us the keister — an old leather satchel used, in its better days to carry the baby's "didies" in — and sent us to bring in the eggs.
1963, Grace Snyder, Nellie Irene Snyder Yost, No Time on My Hands, page 37
present singular third person keisters · participle present keistering · participle past keistered · past keistered · alternative keester · alternative keyster · alternative kiester
Keister2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe anus or buttocks.
verbTo conceal something in one's rectum.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Uncertain. Originally attested as a criminal cant word for "burglar's tool-box" in 1881. In the 20th century a clutch of criminal slang meanings are mentioned, including "safe, strongbox". "Tripe and keister" had been the phrase for a conman's or a pitchman's display case on a tripod. A likely origin is the word Kiste, which means a box or case, in both German and Yiddish.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish peba
- pebathe buttocks
French derrière
- derrièrethe buttocks
Russian я́годицы
- я́годицы (jágodicy)the buttocks
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
keister. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/keister
“keister.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/keister. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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