daniel
Hebrew origin. Means “God is my judge”.
Also used as slang
View on the slang dictionary page →A cheeky American slang term for the buttocks, used as a euphemism that sounds polite enough to say in mixed company while everyone knows exactly what you mean. It joins a long tradition of proper nouns becoming stand-ins for body parts — keeping things technically clean while being obviously cheeky. It's playful and low-key vulgar, the kind of term a dad might use to avoid saying "butt" in front of the kids while still getting a laugh.
He slipped on the ice and landed square on his daniel in front of everyone.
Daniel means: A cheeky American slang term for the buttocks, used as a euphemism that sounds polite enough to say in mixed company while everyone knows exactly what you mean. It joins a long tradition of proper. It is informal slang, fine in casual speech but not suited to formal contexts. It carries sexual or vulgar connotations; not alarming on its own but worth understanding the context your teen heard it in.
daniel means: A cheeky American slang term for the buttocks, used as a euphemism that sounds polite enough to say in mixed company while everyone knows exactly what you mean. It joins a long. Register: very informal, often derogatory or vulgar. Avoid in formal, business, academic, or polite writing. Even in casual speech the word can offend and is best left out of a learner's active vocabulary. Common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; always check the context before producing it yourself.
“# Daniel (biblical figure) Daniel (biblical figure) Protagonist of the Book of Daniel of the Hebrew Bible "Belteshazzar" redirects here; not to be confused with [Belshazzar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belshazzar "Belshazzar").”
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“[Jump to content](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_in_the_lions%27_den#bodyContent) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Story in the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible For the Rubens painting, see [_Daniel in the Lions' Den_ (Rubens)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_in_the_Lions%27_Den_(Rubens) "Daniel in the Lions' Den (Rubens)").”
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(US, _, slang) The buttocks.
“Stanislav Boldyrev, Daniel Humphrey, Vadim Roytershteyn: Distributions of particles accelerated by strong Alfv\'enic turbulence https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02219 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.02219 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.02219”
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— Bluesky· May 2026“Daniel B\'ascones, Arshpreet Singh Maan, Valentin Savin, Francisco Garcia-Herrero: A Scalable FPGA Architecture for Real-Time Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes Using GARI https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01035 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01035 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01035”
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— Bluesky· May 2026“Ujjwal Gautam, Nasser Gohari Kamel, Sourabh Kumar, Daniel Oblak: Memory-assisted multimode microwave-to-optical transduction https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01239 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01239 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01239”
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