heinie
see also: Heinie
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈhaɪni/
Noun

heinie (plural heinies)

  1. (US, slang) The buttocks.
    • 2001, Stephen Coonts, America: Jake Grafton, Book 9, 2013, unnumbered page ↗,
      “I hope you're right,” Jake said, “because if you aren't “Jacob Lee Grafton, we've been betting our heinies for a lot of years. One more big bet won't make any difference.”

Heinie
Proper noun
  1. (US) A diminutive form of Heinrich, or its English cognate Henry, sometimes applied to a person of (real or supposed) German heritage.
    • 2010, Wayne Mausser, Chicago Cubs Facts and Trivia, Third Edition, page 27 ↗,
      Heinie[Heine Zimmerman] played with the Cubs from 1907 thru 1916, as a third baseman.
    • 2011, Warren Trest, Donald B. Dodd, Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard's Covert Role at the Bay of Pigs, page 27 ↗,
      Lieutenant Colonel Harry C. “Heinie” Aderholt,[Harry C. Aderholt] who was born and raised in Birmingham, had been with the CIA since the Korean War and now commanded clandestine air operations out of Okinawa and Thailand. Heinie Aderholt knew most of the Alabama Guard pilots.
Noun

heinie (plural heinies)

  1. (US, slang) A German, especially a German soldier.
    • 2009, John Wayne Gorman, Dorothy Gorman Yundt, Patrick Quinn, Compass: U.S. Army Ranger, European Theater, 1944-45, page 58 ↗,
      The Heinies had run off. We were suspicious; the boys were a little nervous because in a hedgerow we didn't know where our friends and foes were. Suddenly Bud said, “Damn, there's a Heinie over there. There's his helmet!”



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