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butt out

butt out verb: to stop interfering; mind one's own business.

Verb

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

  1. (Canada, US, derogatory, intransitive, slang) To stop interfering; mind one's own business.
  2. (idiomatic, imperative) To tell someone rudely to leave them alone or not get involved in what they're doing.
    • The government should butt out of people's private lives.

butt out meaning in Bengali

butt out in Bengali

হস্তক্ষেপ করা বন্ধ করা, নিজের কাজে মন দেওয়া

Forms of butt out

third-person singular presentbutts out
present participlebutting out
past participlebutted out
pastbutted out

Origin of butt out

Modelled after butt in.

Questions about butt out

What does butt out mean?
Butt out means to stop interfering; mind one's own business.
What is butt out in Bengali?
Butt out in Bengali is হস্তক্ষেপ করা বন্ধ করা, নিজের কাজে মন দেওয়া. See Butt out meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is butt out?
Butt out is a verb.
What is the past tense of butt out?
The past tense of butt out is butted out.

Words near butt out in the dictionary

  1. butt lovers
  2. butt monkey
  3. butt monkeys
  4. butt munching
  5. butt naked
  6. butt out
  7. butt pad
  8. butt pads
  9. butt pirate
  10. butt pirates
  11. butt plug

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butt out (page history and authors); butt out (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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