Butt Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Butt? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Example sentences, Derivations, Words starting with Butt, How to pronounce? Synonyms, Antonyms, Words ending with Butt, Related sentences and more...

Word: Butt

How to pronounce: bʌt

Transitive verb

Definitions:

1. (of a person or animal) hit (someone or something) with the head or horns.

Example sentences: "She butted him in the chest"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A push or blow, especially one given with the head.

Example sentences: "He would follow up with a butt from his head"

Noun

Definitions:

1. The person or thing at which criticism or humor, typically unkind, is directed.

Example sentences: "His singing is the butt of dozens of jokes"

Noun

Definitions:

1. The thicker end of something, especially a tool or a weapon.The square end of a plank or plate meeting the end or side of another, as in the side of a ship.The thicker or hinder end of a hide used for leather.

Example sentences: "A rifle butt"

2. The stub of a cigar or a cigarette.

Example sentences: "The ashtray was crammed with cigarette butts"

3. The buttocks or anus.

4. The trunk of a tree, especially the part just above the ground.

Example sentences: "Pick the tree up and tap the butt on the ground a few times, notice how many needles fall off the tree."

Intransitive verb

Definitions:

1. Adjoin or meet end to end.

Example sentences: "The church butted up against the row of houses"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A cask, typically used for wine, ale, or water.

Example sentences: "George's treacherous intriguing persisted until in 1478 Edward sent him to the Tower where, according to tradition, he was drowned in a butt of malmsey wine."

Synonyms:

buttstock

tun

hogshead

barrel

keg

cigarette stub

cigarette

stub

cigaret

end wall

butt end