Noun
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the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"
"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
- hind end - rear end - tail end
Adjective
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having the lower score or lagging position in a contest
"behind by two points"
"the 8th inning found the home team trailing"
Adverb
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in debt
"he fell behind with his mortgage payments"
"a month behind in the rent"
"a company that has been run behindhand for years"
"in arrears with their utility bills"
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in or into an inferior position
"fell behind in his studies"
"their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"
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of timepieces
"the clock is almost an hour slow"
"my watch is running behind"
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remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from
"when he died he left much unfinished work behind"
"left a large family behind"
"the children left their books behind"
"he took off with a squeal of tires and left the other cars far behind"
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in or to or toward the rear
"he followed behind"
"seen from behind, the house is more imposing than it is from the front"
"the final runners were far behind"