1
: the back of a hip that forms one of the fleshy parts on which a person sits
2
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she slipped in the mud puddle and hit the ground square on her buttocks
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On Sunday morning a little over a mile from the barber shop, a 65-year-old woman was shot in the left buttocks by a shooter who fled in a black BMW.
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Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025
Advertisement Advertisement But skin cancer can also develop in areas that aren’t regularly exposed to the sun, including the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, genitals, buttocks, eyelids, in the skin under the nails, and inside the mouth or nose.
—Stacey Colino, Time, 9 July 2025
The killer kept souvenirs from at least some of his victims, according to court records and police reports, including a tattoo cut from the buttocks of one and hair scalped from the head of another.
—Tim Evans, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
With them, there are prosthetic buttocks as well as prosthetic penises, and everything has to be held in place, so that would always have had to have been the case.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 July 2025
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Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025
Advertisement Advertisement But skin cancer can also develop in areas that aren’t regularly exposed to the sun, including the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, genitals, buttocks, eyelids, in the skin under the nails, and inside the mouth or nose.
—Stacey Colino, Time, 9 July 2025
The killer kept souvenirs from at least some of his victims, according to court records and police reports, including a tattoo cut from the buttocks of one and hair scalped from the head of another.
—Tim Evans, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
With them, there are prosthetic buttocks as well as prosthetic penises, and everything has to be held in place, so that would always have had to have been the case.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 July 2025
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“Buttock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buttock. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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buttock
noun
but·tock
ˈbət-ək 
1
: the back of the hip which forms one of the fleshy parts on which a person sits
2
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