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nuts-to-butts

nuts-to-butts is the alternative form of nuts to butts.

Meaning of nuts to butts

Adjective

nuts to butts (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) Arranged in close formation, one behind the other; nose to tail.
    • There was a Marine in front of Puller, then Puller, and myself. We were nuts-to-butts, so to speak, and that Marine tripped a booby trap.1994, George I. Ellis, “Petty Officer Third Class”, in Harry Spiller, editor, Scars of Vietnam: Personal Accounts by Veterans and Their Families, McFarland & Company, pages 93-94
  2. (idiomatic, slang) Tightly crowded, packed.
    • The Angels’ current facilities, Sliwa emphasized, are “ ‘sardinelike’ or, to use the street euphemism, ‘nuts to butts.’ Females who have visited felt uncomfortable.”1994 August 29, Sliwa, “Angels with Smelly Armpits”, in Monica Corcoran, New York, volume 27, number 34, page 28

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Forms of nuts-to-butts

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superlativemost nuts-to-butts

Questions about nuts-to-butts

What is nuts-to-butts the alternative form of?
Nuts-to-butts is the alternative form of nuts to butts.

Words near nuts-to-butts in the dictionary

  1. nuts and bolts
  2. nuts out
  3. nuts to
  4. nuts to butts
  5. nuts up
  6. nuts-to-butts
  7. nutsack
  8. nutsacks
  9. nutsedge
  10. nutsedges
  11. nutsetter

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