buns

buns
n pl
1.
American
the buttocks. A popular term since the early 1970s which is not partic-ularly vulgar and which is gaining cur-rency outside North America. The origin may be an obsolete northern British dialect term for 'tail', a variation on bum, or may simply refer to the parallels in form and texture with edible buns.
2.
Australian
sanitary towels or tampons. A shortening of 'jam buns' used almost exclusively by men. ('To have the buns on' is to be menstruating.)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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