butts

Noun

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.
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

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