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butt chin

butt chin noun: a cleft chin.

Noun

butt chin (plural butt chins)

  1. (Canada, US, slang) A cleft chin.
    • Still looking lost and confused, Clive scratched his butt-chin, looked me in the eye with both pupils constricted, and full of uncertainty, he stammered as he fired yet another question.2011, C. Lazarus, Father on the Loose!
    • Katie immediately noticed a deep cleft in his chin. “Butt chin” was what the kids at school called it.2010, Scott Pratt, Injustice for All

Examples of butt chin in a sentence

  • Ali used to call them "butt chins," but it was actually pretty cute.2008, Sara Shepard, Flawless, page 206:
  • Some people jokingly referred to it as a “butt chin.” Sheppard's dimpled chin wasn't at all unsightly.2007, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Sullivan's Evidence, page 334:
  • He had a cleft chin, or as Matt whispered to me, a butt chin.2006, Carol Weston, Melanie in Manhattan, page 261:

Forms of butt chin

pluralbutt chins
alternative formbutt-chin

Origin of butt chin

From its resemblance to the buttocks.

Questions about butt chin

What does butt chin mean?
Butt chin means a cleft chin.
How do you use butt chin in a sentence?
Ali used to call them "butt chins," but it was actually pretty cute.
What part of speech is butt chin?
Butt chin is a noun.
What is the plural of butt chin?
The plural of butt chin is butt chins.

Words near butt chin in the dictionary

  1. butt checked
  2. butt checking
  3. butt checks
  4. butt cheek
  5. butt cheeks
  6. butt chin
  7. butt chins
  8. butt chisel
  9. butt chisels
  10. butt chug
  11. butt chugged

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