butt
Pronunciation
Noun
- (countable) Your butt is your bottom, your bum, the part of your body that you sit on.
- Synonyms: bum, bottom, ass, buttocks, backside, behind, rear, rear-end, booty, tush, tushie, hein, heinie, gluteus-maximus, bottom and derrière
- The exercise works your legs, butt, and back.
- (countable) When someone says, get your butt over/back/out of here, they mean move yourself.
- Get your butt over here. = come here
- If someone or something is a pain in the butt, they are unpleasant or annoying.
- Stop that! You're such a pain in the butt.
- (countable) If you work/run/study/play your butt off, you do so very hard.
- We played our butts off in the game today, and we still lost.
- (countable) The butt of something is its end.
- Synonym: end
- He threw his cigarette butt on the ground.
- He put the butt of the gun against his shoulder and looked down its long barrel.
- (countable) If you're the butt of a joke, people are laughing at you because the joke makes you seem foolish or bad.
- He hated being the butt of other people's jokes.
- (countable) (British) A butt is a large container for liquids.
- Synonym: barrel
- The rain flowed into the butt.
Verb
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- (transitive) If animals butt something, they hit it with their head or horns.
- The two goats butted each other and one fell over.
- (intransitive) If you butt up against something, you reach it or come into conflict with it; often used when something stops progress.
- The car butted up against the gate and could not go further.
- (intransitive) If two people butt heads, they disagree or argue strongly.
- The managers butted heads about the new schedule.
- (transitive) If you butt two things (for example, pipes or boards), you join their ends together so they meet directly.
- They butted the two metal pipes together before welding the joint.
- (intransitive) If you butt in, you interrupt a conversation or activity by speaking or acting when you should not.
- Please don't butt in while I'm talking.
- (intransitive) (slang) If you tell someone to butt out, you tell them not to interfere; to leave a matter alone.
- This is between them — you should butt out.