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keister U.S. slang.|ˈkiːstə(r), ˈkaɪstə(r)|
Also keester, keyster.
[Etym. unknown.]
1. a. A suitcase, satchel; a handbag; a burglar's tool-case; a salesman's sample-case, etc.
[1881National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 1 Oct. 10/1 Prominent among the small army of confidence operators in this city are: ‘Grand Central Pete’..‘The Guinea Pig’..‘Keister Bob’.] 1882G. W. Peck Peck's Sunshine 227 The boy took the knight's keister and went to the elevator. 1910G. B. McCutcheon Rose in Ring 80 Ruby Noakes..was directing the contortionist in his efforts to construct a table out of three ‘blue seats’ and a couple of property trunks, or ‘keesters’, as they were called. 1926Flynn's 16 Jan. 637/2 All this chatter 'bout keisters with false bottoms an' mushes is mostly pipe stuff an' hopchin. 1926Clues Nov. 161/2 Keyster, handbag or suitcase. 1933‘P. Cain’ Fast One vi. 211 Hang on the front..until you see three big pig-skin keesters go in. 1935Collier & Westrate Reign Soapy Smith i. 2 An open sample case of liberal dimensions..the typical ‘keister’ of the street hawker. 1935Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. XXX. iii. 363 Keyster, a suitcase. 1950H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 114/2 Ditch that keister. It draws heat (attracts police attention).
b. A strong-box in a safe; a safe (see also quot. 1924).
1913A. Stringer Shadow 36 He made a mental record of dips and yeggs and till-tappers and keister-crackers. 1921P. & T. Casey in Adventure (U.S.) 18 July 22/2 They..breaks inter the keester o' the bank safes an' gits away with all the stored-up jack. 1924G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 409 Keister, bars on certain type of safe. A handbag that can be strapped and locked. 1931Amer. Speech VII. 110 Can we use can-opener on this keister? 1950H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 114/2 Easy on the soup (crude nitro-glycerine) with that keister or she'll jam.
2. The buttocks.
1931Amer. Speech VI. 439 Keister, a satchel; also what one sits on. 1951Wodehouse Old Reliable xi. 132 And then they'd leave me flat on my keister and go off and buy candy and orchids for the other girls. 1968McLean's Mag. Dec. 1/1 His job at Christ the King was defined by Father Mooney as ‘getting people off their keesters’. 1975New Yorker 10 Mar. 90/2 Just put your keyster in the chair and shut your mouth. |