behind
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Is behind a Scrabble word?
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Definition
prep (English)
1. At or to the back or far side of.Examples: "Behind the smile was a cruel intention."Synonyms: in back of, to the rear of, a-backAntonyms: in front of, in front offiguratively
2. At or to the back or far side of.Examples: "All my problems are behind me."Synonyms: in back of, to the rear of, a-backAntonyms: in front of, in front offiguratively
3. (sometimes regarded as nonstandard, US, informal) Following, subsequent to; as a result or consequence of; because of.Examples: "He was like, 'Fuck the police! Fuck you! You know who I am, you gonna quit playing with me, bitch.' I'm like let's go. 'Cause I wasn't trying to go to jail behind that shit."USinformal
adv (English)
1. (archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.Examples: "We cannot be sure that there is no evidence behind."archaic
adj (English)
1. (of a watch or clock) Slow.Examples: "My watch is behind by four minutes."
noun (English)
1. (informal) The buttocks, bottom, butt.Examples: "I was stung on the behind by a wasp."; ""So the catheter didn't have anything to do with keeping him from touching himself?" I don't usually go in for euphemisms, but Fineg is a man who says "behind", as in "I have a picture where he bit me in the behind." The catheter, it turns out, was in the chimp's femoral artery (to monitor blood pressure), not his urethra."; ""The dog got excited, was jumping around inside the boat and then it jumped on the gun. It went off, shooting the [decoy setter] in the buttocks," Box Elder County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Kevin Potter told the Salt Lake Tribune. Twenty-seven rounds of birdshot were removed from the man's behind after the accident."informal
2. (Australian rules football) A one-point score.Examples: "A roar from ten thousand throats go up, For we've kicked another behind."
3. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.slang
Definition source: Wiktionary