keister

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Scrabble points
11
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11
Letters
7

Definition of keister

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (slang)The anus or buttocks.
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noun

  1. (slang)The anus or buttocks.
  2. (dated, slang)A 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?"”
  3. (slang)A suitcase or satchel.
    “Tripods, keister and loud talk don't make a pitchman any more than do fine feathers make fine birds.”
    “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.”

verb

  1. (slang)To conceal something in one's rectum.
    “Quick, keister this pot before the cops get here.”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

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…

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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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