Keister
name, noun, verb, slang ·3 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The anus or buttocks. slang
- 2 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on wordnet
- 3 A safe, a strongbox. dated, slang
"― " […] The four hundred's yours to take a keister for me. Any cash you find in the box is yours." ― "Four hundred, huh? Don't seem like much. Think there'd be anything in the keister?""
- 4 A suitcase or satchel. slang
"Tripods, keister and loud talk don't make a pitchman any more than do fine feathers make fine birds."
- 1 To conceal something in one's rectum. slang
"Quick, keister this pot before the cops get here."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"― " […] The four hundred's yours to take a keister for me. Any cash you find in the box is yours." ― "Four hundred, huh? Don't seem like much. Think there'd be anything in the keister?""
Etymology
Uncertain. Originally attested as a criminal cant word for "burglar's tool-box" in 1881. In the 20th century a clutch of criminal slang meanings are mentioned, including "safe, strongbox". "Tripe and keister" had been the phrase for a conman's or a pitchman's display case on a tripod. A likely origin is the word Kiste, which means a box or case, in both German and Yiddish.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.