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Butt

Noun

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1.NounThe larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end The buttocks or anus .
"Get up off your butt and get to work.; I can see your butt.; Get your butt to the car.; We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late."
2.NounThe buttocks or anus .
"Get up off your butt and get to work.; I can see your butt.; Get your butt to the car.; We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late."
3.NounThe whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
"I can see your butt."
4.NounBody; self.
"Get your butt to the car.; We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late."
5.NounThe thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
6.NounThe waste end of anything. A used cigarette. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. Hassock. A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
7.NounA used cigarette.
8.NounA piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
9.NounHassock.
10.NounA crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
11.NounAn 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.
"She was hit in the face with the butt of a shotgun."
12.NounThe end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
"She was hit in the face with the butt of a shotgun."
13.NounThe plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
14.NounThe portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
15.NounThe end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
16.NounA joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
17.NounA 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.
18.NounThe joint where two planks in a strake meet.
19.NounThe blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
20.NounThe direction from which the wind blows.
21.NounA limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. A mark to be shot at; a target.
"archery butt; He's usually the butt of their jokes.; archery butt"
22.NounA mark to be shot at; a target.
"archery butt"
23.NounA person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
"He's usually the butt of their jokes."
24.NounThe hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
25.NounThe entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
"archery butt"
26.VerbTo join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
27.VerbTo strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
28.VerbTo strike bluntly with the head.
"Rams butt at other males during mating season."
29.VerbTo cut in line (in front of someone).
"Teacher! He just butted me!"
30.NounA push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
"Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.; The handcuffed suspect gave the officer a desperate butt in the chest."
31.NounA thrust in fencing.
32.NounAn English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
33.NounA wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
34.Noun↑ Barnhart, Robert and Steinmetz, Sol, editors (1988), “butt”, in The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology‎, Bronxville, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130, column 1.
35.Noun↑ Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “butt”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130, column 2; reprinted 1994.
36.NounAny of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
37.NounA heavy two-wheeled cart.
38.NounA three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
39.NounThe shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
40.NounSynonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
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