noun Older Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
- a contemptuous term used to refer to a German, especially a German soldier in World War I or II.
noun Slang.
- the buttocks.
also Heine, as a typical name of a German man, 1904, North American slang, from pet form of common German masc. proper name Heinrich (see Henry). Brought to Europe in World War I by Canadian soldiers (British soldiers called the adversary Fritz).
slang for “the buttocks,” by 1930s, probably a contraction of hind end.