Meaning

(chiefly in combination) Having a behind (of a specific type)..

Example Sentences

1909, Andrew Lang, Sir George Mackenzie, King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh: His Life and Times, 1636(?)–1691, Chapter VI, p. 58, footnote, Naturally Sir Archibald Stewart Denham did not like Mackenzie, who had styled these Stewarts "bare-behinded Macgregors."

1969, Sarah Elizabeth Wright, This Child's Gonna Live, excerpted in William H. Banks, Jr. (ed.), Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to the Contemporary, New York: Harlem Moon, 2010, Then she was gonna tell him where his old bleached-out papa come from and his weak-behinded mamma too, if she could stomach herself getting down that low.

I am a kind of farthing dip, Unfriendly to the nose and eyes; A blue-behinded ape, I skip Upon the trees of Paradise.

There was a hoot from the distant train. It rolled round the bend, like a black-behinded caterpillar that looks over its shoulder as it goes, and vanished.

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When Should You Use Behinded?

Use behinded when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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