keister en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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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 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.
Meanings
- (slang) The anus or buttocks.
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(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?"
1953, Richard S. Prather, Too many crooks, page 100:
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(slang) A suitcase or satchel.
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: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| keisters | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| keyster | alternative | lexicographic | |
| kiester | alternative | lexicographic | |
| keester | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
peach · rear · 'tocks · buttocks · dicky · a-hole · ying-yang · glutes · fuckhole · chocolate starfish · postern · rectum · arsehole · bumhole · rear end · exit hole · hinderlin · sit upon · shithole · cumhole · shitter · starfish · wazoo · dock · smelly freckle · toches · farthole · ding · bung-hole · tushie · rosebud · buns · behind · arse · ass · bum · fartbox · clacker · tail · heinie · back passage · tewel · chuff · bootyhole · anus · dinger · gluteus maximus · browneye · Hershey highway · vent · backside · craphole · fundament · asspussy · freckle · tradesman's entrance · posterior · patootie · gump stump · keister · stinkhole · turd cutter · bottom · moon · batty hole · caboose · cinnamon ring · jacksie · bunghole · love hole · butt · seat · booty · nether cheeks · keester · blessed assurance · rear exit · gyatt · ringpiece · rusty sheriff's badge · jacksie · fourth point of contact · bum cheeks · asscunt · chocolate channel · Gary Glitter · ass · asshole · pooper · dung funnel · hiney · poop chute · botty · gooseberry-grinder · butt cheeks · batty · where the sun don't shine · windpipe · hurdies · rump · bottom · jacksy · buttonhole · dookie hole · leather cheerio · bum · back · bungus · sluthole · arse cheeks · cheeks · back door · moneymaker · brown eye · balloon knot · nates · ass cheeks · fudge tunnel · fanny · butthole · tooter · back alley · clacka · derriere · donut hole · other end · arse · tush · fourth point of contact · poophole · batty · keister · cornhole
Translations (3)
fi peba (the buttocks) · fr derrière (the buttocks) · ru я́годицы (the buttocks)