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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 rump /ˈrʌmp/
 尾部,臀部

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 rump /ˈrəmp/ 名詞
 臀部,臀

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rump n.
 1. The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.
 2. Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.
 3. Fig.: The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.
 Rump Parliament, or The Rump Eng. Hist., the remnant of the Long Parliament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes.  It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659.
    The Rump abolished the House of Lords, the army abolished the Rump, and by this army of saints Cromwell governed.   --Swift.
 -- Rump steak, a beefsteak from the rump. --Goldsmith.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rump
      n 1: the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human
           buttocks [syn: hindquarters, croup, croupe]
      2: fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round
      3: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
         deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit
         on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
         arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament,
          hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat,
          rear, rear end, stern, seat, tail, tail end,
         tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny,
          ass]