heinie
n.— Note: Perhaps a play off of “Heinie,” now outdated slang for a German. «The evening crowd at Kirmser’s dressed like everyone else, the men with our hair clipped short, sometimes in a military-cut heinie.» —by Ricardo J. Brown, William Reichard The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s , 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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