Meaning & use

tukus

noun·Everyday

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The buttocks (informal).

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He slipped on the ice and landed hard right on his tukus.

She swatted the puppy playfully on the tukus for chewing the shoe.

A note on using this word

A Yiddish-derived spelling of 'tuchus,' also commonly written as 'tush' or 'tochus' in American English.

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