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• n  the back of a military formation or procession
  infantrymen were in the rear
• n  the side of an object that is opposite its front
  his room was toward the rear of the hotel
• n  the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
  it was hidden in the rear of the store
• n  the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• n  the side that goes last or is not normally seen
• v  stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
  The horse reared in terror
• v  bring up
• v  rise up
• v  cause to rise up
• v  construct, build, or erect
• s  located in or toward the back or rear
  the chair's rear legs
  the rear door of the plane
  on the rearward side

• The first prototype had a wicked death wobble in the rear wheel.
• The car tended to erupt in flame in rear-end collisions.
• Rear-engine cars are fun to drive and even more fun to crash.

• backside
• back end
• back
• buttocks
• nates
• arse
• butt
• bum
• buns
• can
• fundament
• hindquarters
• hind end
• keister
• posterior
• prat
• rear end
• rump
• stern
• seat
• tail
• tail end
• tooshie
• tush
• bottom
• behind
• derriere
• fanny
• ass
• rise up
• raise
• bring up
• nurture
• parent
• rise
• lift
• erect
• set up
• put up
• rearward

• head
• front
• level

News & Articles

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• Truck driver airlifted after rear-ending big rig in Sugar Land
  SUGAR LAND, Texas—A dump truck driver was seriously injured Wednesday afternoon after he rear-ended an 18-wheeler on Highway 90, according to Sugar Land police. The driver was traveling at a high rate of speed when he ran into the back of a big rig, which was stopped at a red light on Highway 90 at Highway 6. The impact pushed the 18-wheeler at least 30 feet forward. The dump truck driver, who ...
  June 12, 2013 - KHOU 11 Houston
• Kids on field trip hurt when streetcar rear-ends bus in San Francisco
  Several people, including children, have been transported to local hospitals after a streetcar rear-ended a bus in San Francisco.
  June 12, 2013 - KGO-TV Bay Area
• Rear Slap Gets Ex-NFL Star 30 Days
  Slap on lawyer's rear earns ex-NFL star Chad Johnson 30 days in jail for probation violation        
  June 10, 2013 - ABC News

Quotes

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• Brian Vickers in Austin American-Statesman
  He hooked me in the left rear,Vickers said. "To wreck somebody intentionally like that in front of the entire field is really kind of dangerous."
• Carl Edwards in Kansas City Star
  The way this works is the way a real smart racer explained it to me after he wrecked me, and I was real mad,Edwards said. "He said, 'I just had to look at your rear bumper and decide, would you do this to me? And you had before, so it was...
• Stan Van Gundy in Boston Herald
  He missed it,Magic Coach Stan Van Gundy said. "I don't know what else to say. I'm not trying to be a pain in the (rear). I just don't know what else to say about it."