keister

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noun

The anus or buttocks.

“Quick, keister this pot before the cops get here.”

UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

keister1

nounkeister (plural keisters)

plural keisters · alternative keester · alternative keyster · alternative kiester

  1. slangThe anus or buttocks.

    Synonyms: a-hole, anus, arsehole, arse, asscunt, asshole, asspussy, ass

  2. datedslangA safe, a strongbox.

    ― " […] The four hundred's yours to take a keister for me. Any cash you find in the box is yours." ― "Four hundred, huh? Don't seem like much. Think there'd be anything in the keister?"

    1953, Richard S. Prather, Too many crooks, page 100
  3. 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 63
    1 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
verbkeister (third-person singular simple present keisters, present participle keistering, simple past and past participle keistered)

present singular third person keisters · participle present keistering · participle past keistered · past keistered · alternative keester · alternative keyster · alternative kiester

  1. slangTo conceal something in one's rectum.

    Quick, keister this pot before the cops get here.

    Synonyms: suitcase

Keister2

proper nounKeister (plural Keisters)

plural Keisters

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo conceal something in one's rectum.

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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.

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Translations

Finnish peba
  • pebathe buttocks
French derrière
  • derrièrethe buttocks
Russian я́годицы
  • я́годицы (jágodicy)the buttocks

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APA

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Chicago

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