butt
IPA: bˈʌt
noun
- (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
- (Canada, US, Philippines, slang) The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- (slang, metonymically) Body; self.
- (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- (countable) The waste end of anything.
- (slang) A used cigarette.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- (obsolete, West Country) Hassock.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A thrust in fencing.
- (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
- (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- A surname.
- A surname from English.
- A surname from German.
- A surname from Kashmiri.
verb
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
- (transitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
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Examples of "butt" in Sentences
- He used to live in a butte.
- The mother spanked the boy's butt.
- He flicks the butt out the window.
- I want to butt into your business.
- A rocky butte lay in the center of the field.
- Cowhand. when a cowboy and cowgirl is a butt.
- In 1989 the Butte was deployed to the Mediterranean.
- By 1975, the car was the butt of jokes and derision.
- Marlin is hit in the jaw with the butt of a shotgun.
- Butt was the main speaker in opposition to the motion.