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butted in

butted in is the simple past and past participle of butt in.

Meaning of butt in

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To join a conversation or situation in which one is not welcome or invited; to interject (connotes a rude or discourteous interruption).
    • Hey, this is none of your business; don’t butt in!
  2. (informal, transitive) To join a queue not at the end, but in the middle, in violation of etiquette.

Questions about butted in

What is butted in the simple past and past participle of?
Butted in is the simple past and past participle of butt in.

Words near butted in in the dictionary

  1. Butte Valley
  2. butteca
  3. buttecas
  4. butted
  5. butted heads
  6. butted in
  7. butted out
  8. butted up
  9. Butten
  10. butter
  11. butter bar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butted in (page history and authors); butt in (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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