buns n.
1. the buttocks; occas. in sing.
 | [VMF-23] Old Ballads 13: She sat down and couldn’t get her bun free [HDAS]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | (con. 1958) Been Down So Long (1972) 61: You bet your rosy buns they threw me out. | |
| Stand (1990) 73: What his money and her brains hadn’t been able to take care of [...] she had done the old-fashioned way: by bending her back and shucking her buns. Working and working hard. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 24: BUNS — Well shaped arse cheeks. | |
| Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 31: I’m not into pain, but Joanna Perkins does a pretty good job of taking it on the buns with a riding crop. | |
| Lucky You 214: I’ll bet that cute little waitress is freezing her buns in those shorts. | |
| You Got Nothing Coming 265: I adjust my sore buns on the toilet seat. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Fleshmarket Close (2005) 53: The buns on Kenny Reilly!!! | |
| [bk title] Another Bunch of Warm Buns: Spanking Short Stories. | |
| Bad Sex on Speed 119: Mother Theresa [...] loved to put Tru-Tru buns up and diaper him. |
2. a woman’s breasts.
| Ginger Man (1958) 276: Lilly, I never get tired of your white thirty-four year old bubas, buns or beauties. Or will I get over how much I like to imagine them under that green pajama top. | |
| Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority 🌐 One of the jailers asked if he could have the ‘buns’ on her body and put his hand on her breast. |
3. fig. one’s body.
| It (1987) 48: As soon as he understood he had gotten his buns into some hot water. | |
| Sweet La-La Land (1999) 37: Hogan and Roach and Duckie strutting their buns. |
4. (US) in fig. use, as an emphatic form of a given action, e.g. [verb] one’s buns (off).
| The Case for Extinction 19/2: [T]he coldest reaches of the Arctic, where you can freeze your buns off. | |
| Skiing (US) Dec. 25: [advert] SKI YOUR BUNS OFF IN A FREE SET OF NEW LANGE BOOTS. | |
| The Same Old Grind 15: ‘You’re working your buns off for no money’. | |
| (con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 100: Dad says you better get a move on, or else. Dad says hustle your buns, or else. | |
| Gaffney Ledger (SC) 12 Apr. 4/3: Back in the old days [...] skating parties became the ‘in’ thing [...] you’d invite all your friends [...] and skate your little buns off. |
In compounds
(US gay) one who performs the active role in anal intercourse.
| Lavender Lex. n.p.: bun bandit:– A person who engages in pederasty as the insertor. Most often applied to a person who, by appearance, would not assume this role. | |
| Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 6: bun bandit (n.): A pederast. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
a homosexual; by stereotype, a sycophant.
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 275: He dropped treats on rugs and chairs: Dildoes/reefers/bun-boy boox/Judy Garland LPs. | |
| LAbyrinth 192: [He] treated the Compton mayor like one of his bun boys. |
a male homsexual, stereotyped as a lover of anal intercourse.
| From This Port On n.p.: ‘Tommy’s Bun Buddy!’. | |
| Destination: Morgue 357: He banged bun bunnies on the Boys’ Town Strip. |
(US gay) a male prostitute specializing in taking a passive role.
| Lavender Lex. n.p.: buns:– The buttocks. A male-prostitute engaging as a receptor in sodomy would be a ‘bun merchant’. |
(US prison) an anal search.
| Pain Killers 18: Course, if you’d have given him that lighter, we’d be marchin’ you to intake for a bun-spread yourself. |
In phrases
(Aus.) head-over-heels.
| Fact’ry ’Ands 119: He [...] ’urled him, bun over brisket, inter ther middle iv ther lawn. |
(Aus. prison) homosexual gang rape.
| Doing Time 187: bun up: homosexual pack rape. | |
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Bun up. Homosexual pack rape in prison. |
(US gay) to engage in vigorous sex.
| Queens’ Vernacular 89: to fuck hard and fast [...] burn some buns. |
(US prison) a prison homosexual .
| ‘Catheads [...] and Cho-Cho Sticks’ in Abernethy Bounty of Texas (1990) 207: hot buns, n. – homosexual. |
(US gay) to have anal intercourse.
| Queens’ Vernacular 89: anal intercourse [...] split some buns. | |
| Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐 anal intercourse: [...] Syn: split some buns. |
(US gay) to walk in an exaggerated way, intended to focus attention on one’s tight buttocks.
| Faggots 82: Strut Them Buns. |
In exclamations
a general excl. of disdain, dismissal, arrogant contempt.
| Ghetto Sketches 52: Black cul-tural nationalism, my buns! |