butt

[Butt]

Your butt is your buttocks, your tush, your rear end. Saying butt is more childish than offensive.

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To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

Noun
thick end of the handle

Noun
the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)

Noun
a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)

Noun
a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping

Noun
finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

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Noun
sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at

Noun
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?"

Noun
a victim of ridicule or pranks

Verb
to strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or horns; "He butted his sister out of the way"

Verb
lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"

Verb
place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints"


v. t.
Alt. of But

v. i.
To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

v. i.
To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]

v. t.
To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.

n.
A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

n.
The common English flounder.


Butt

Butt, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Butted; p. pr. & vb. n. Butting.] [OE. butten, OF. boter to push, F. bouter. See Butt an end, and cf. Boutade.] 1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.]
And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.
2. To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows.

Butt

Butt, v. t. To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.

Butt

Butt, n. [F. botte, boute, LL. butta. Cf. Bottle a hollow vessel.] A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads. &hand; A wine butt contains 126 wine gallons (= 105 imperial gallons, nearly); a beer butt 108 ale gallons (= about 110 imperial gallons).

Butt

Butt, n. (Zo'94l.) The common English flounder.

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.

A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

The common English flounder.

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Usage Examples

I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

It's hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.

I eat as much as the next girl, but I work my butt of in the gym every morning! The key is moderation. I splurge on the weekend. A big bowl of pasta and a delicious slice of cake for dessert are my favorites.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

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