Green’s Dictionary of Slang

plaster (of Paris) n.

[rhy. sl. = arris n. (2)]

the buttocks.

[UK]R. Puxley Fresh Rabbit.

In compounds

pain in the plaster (n.)

a bore, a nuisance, an irritation.

[UK]R. Puxley Fresh Rabbit 93: A pain in the plaster becomes a pain in the arse, or an eye ache.