butt

Noun (1)

butt (plural butts)

1. (Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, countable) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
   • Get up off your butt and get to work.
2. (Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, countable) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
   • I can see your butt.
3. (Canada, Cumbria, Philippines, US, colloquial, countable) Body; self.
   • Get your butt to the car.
   • We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late.
4. (countable, leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
5. (countable) A used cigarette.
   • I walked around, picking butts from the street.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 10, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2
6. (countable) A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
   • The hay was growing upon headlands and butts in cornfields.c. 1850-1860, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
7. (West-Country, countable, obsolete) Hassock.
8. (US, countable) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

   Synonyms:

   boot, heel

9. (countable, generally) 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.
10. (countable, generally) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
11. (countable, generally) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
12. (countable, generally) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.

Verb (1)

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

1. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
   • And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned...
   • In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.1878 November 8, C. Todd, “Observations at the Adelaide Observatory”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 39, number 1, page 18

Verb (2)

butt (third-person singular simple present butts, present participle butting, simple past and past participle butted)

1. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
   • Two harmless lambs are butting one the other.1651, Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations
2. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
   • Rams butt at other males during mating season.
3. (Canada, Eastern, intransitive, transitive, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
   • Teacher! He just butted me!
   • Additionally, kids are pinched, fondled, propositioned, and hit; and it all goes unseen amid the general confusion and nonspecific orders from the cafeteria supervisors who are yelling things like, "Keep it down, you people!" "No butting!" "Wait your turn, boys!" All of which sound as though there...2016, Chandler, Dan, Bullying in Plain Sight: How Inattentive Adults Encourage the School Bullies, Mustang, O.K.: Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC, →ISBN, page 45

Noun (2)

butt (plural butts)

1. A 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.
2. A thrust in fencing.
   • To prove who gave the fairer butt, / John shows the chalk on Robert's coat.1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC

Noun (3)

butt (plural butts)

1. An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
   • Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. –1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, page 205

   Synonyms:

   pipe

2. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
   • […]I escap'd upon a butt of sack which the sailors heav'd o'erboard[…]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

Noun (4)

butt (plural butts)

1. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.

Noun (5)

butt (plural butts)

1. (Ireland, West-Country, dated) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
2. (Ireland, West-Country, dated) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

Noun (6)

butt (plural butts)

1. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
   • Cut the foot off one inch above the joint, as this makes a much neater looking shoulder. The top third of the shoulder that was removed from the “California ham” is known as the shoulder butt. This piece is divided into lean butt ("Boston Butt") and fat butt ("Clear Plate") […] The lean butt makes...1926, E. C. Johnson, Edward James Wilford, Ernest Newton Fergus, George Roberts, Henry Ernest Curtis, John B. Hutson, Oscar Bernard Jesness, William Durrett Nicholls, Man Labor, Horse Work and...
   • Alternative choices for the shoulder butt oven roast: if you are buying the butt of pork then you must enjoy the flavour that you get only with the fattiet cuts of meat; consequently I suggest the boneless pork loin rib end. Apart from the butt, this wonderful piece of pork has the most fat […]2003, Harry Jordan, Meat Harry: A Meat Lover's Guide to Buying and Preparing Beef, Pork, and Poultry, GeneralStore PublishingHouse, →ISBN, page 114

Noun (7)

butt (plural butts)

1. (Wales, colloquial) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
   • "He looks up, laughs as he sees the way I'm looking - soaking wet and in a towel - takes a full-blown picture, and just walks off.
     "I'm like, 'cheers butt'," she added.2025, Eleri Griffiths, Woman goes viral after delivery photo catches her in just a towel (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p0n73zmro

   Synonyms:

   butty

Proper noun capitalized: Butt

1. A surname from English.
2. A surname from German.
3. A surname from Kashmiri.