Noun

(en noun)

A person of great skill or authority in a particular field

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Noun

(en noun)

(slang) The buttocks.

(slang, dated) A safe, a strongbox.

*1953 , Richard S. Prather, Too many crooks , page 100

? " [...] 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 ?"

(slang) A suitcase; a satchel.

*1942 , Billboard, 29 Aug 1942 — page 63

*:Tripods, keister and loud talk don't make a pitchman any more than do fine feathers make fine birds.

*1963 , Grace Snyder, Nellie Irene Snyder Yost, No Time on My Hands , page 37

*:Sometimes Mama was too busy to make the daily rounds of the draws and pockets, in which case she gave us the keister — an old leather satchel used, in its better days to carry the baby's "didies" in — and sent us to bring in the eggs.