| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Informal. The part of one's back on which one rests in sitting: buttock (used in plural), derrière, posterior, rump, seat. Informal : backside, bottom, rear1. Slang : bun (used in plural), fanny, tush. Chiefly British : bum2. See OVER. | | ADVERB: | 1. Not on time: behindhand, belatedly, late, tardily. See TIME. 2. So as to fall behind schedule: behindhand, late, slow. Idioms: behind time. See TIME.
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