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buttock

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buttock
1. either of the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
2. the analogous part in some mammals
buttock [′bəd·ək]
(mining engineering)
A corner formed by two coal faces more or less at right angles, such as the end of a working face.
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