butt-naked
butt-naked adjective: stark naked, completely nude.
Adjective
butt-naked (not comparable)
- Stark naked, completely nude.
- They could hardly have all marched off butt-naked.1998, John Peel, The Outer Limits: The Vanished, New York: Tor Kids, →ISBN, page 8
- He cannot picture life without alcohol, drugs or butt-naked rooftop escapades.2008, Chris Kovach, chapter 11, in Alcoholics Synonymous, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- nude
Synonyms of butt-naked
Forms of butt-naked
| alternative form | butt naked |
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Origin of butt-naked
Probably related to (and perhaps simply a variant of) buck naked. It is not clear which of the two forms came first, but the earliest written evidence suggests that buck naked is present some four decades earlier.
Questions about butt-naked
- What does butt-naked mean?
- Butt-naked means stark naked, completely nude.
- What part of speech is butt-naked?
- Butt-naked is an adjective.
Words near butt-naked in the dictionary
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