butt
noun
1. thick end of the handle
Definition categories: man–made, stock
2. the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
Definition categories: plant, component, constituent, part, portion
3. a victim of ridicule or pranks
Similar word(s): goat, laughingstock, stooge
Definition categories: person, dupe, victim
4. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- he deserves a good kick in the butt
Similar word(s): backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rump, seat, stern, tail, tush
Definition categories: body
5. sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
Similar word(s): target
Definition categories: man–made
6. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
Similar word(s): cigaret, cigarette
Definition categories: man–made, smoke
7. a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
Definition categories: man–made, joint
8. a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
Definition categories: man–made, barrel, cask
9. the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
Similar word(s): stub
Definition categories: man–made, part, portion
Sentences with butt as a noun:
- Get up off your butt and get to work.
- I can see your butt.
- When the woman in the dress was sitting with her legs up, I could see up her butt.
- Get your butt to the car.
- We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late.
- He's usually the butt of their jokes.
- Be careful in the pen, that ram can knock you down with a butt.
- The handcuffed suspect gave the officer a desperate butt in the chest.
verb
1. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
Similar word(s): abut, adjoin, border, edge, march
Definition categories: contact, adjoin, meet, touch
2. to strike, thrust or shove against
- He butted his sister out of the way
- The goat butted the hiker with his horns
Similar word(s): bunt
Definition categories: contact, strike
3. place end to end without overlapping
- The frames must be butted at the joints
Definition categories: contact, lay, place, pose, position, put, set