Meanings
- humorousslangExcess body fat or musculature on the buttocks area, seen as making someone (usually a woman) more buoyant and allowing more comfort, "cushion," during intercourse than bony hips would, and also providing more bounce.
Near-synonyms: junk in the trunk; see also Thesaurus:buttocks
Synonyms: junk in the trunk
Synonyms & antonyms
phraseExcess body fat or musculature on the buttocks area, seen as making someone (usually a woman) more buoyant and allowing more comfort, "cushion," during intercourse than bony hips would, and also providing more bounce.
Origin
Serendipitous alignment of rhyme with semantics.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
cushion for the pushin'. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cushion%20for%20the%20pushin'
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