| butt | |
| 1. n. The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end | |
| 2. n. (North America, slang) The buttocks (used as a euphemism in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass). | |
| Get up off your butt and get to work. | |
| 3. n. # (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts. | |
| 4. n. #: I can see your butt. | |
| 5. n. #: When the woman in the dress was sitting with her legs up, I could see up her butt. | |
| 6. n. # (slang) Body; self. | |
| 7. n. #: Get your butt to the car. | |
| 8. n. #: We can't chat today. I have to get my butt to work before I'm late. | |
| 9. n. (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks. | |
| 10. n. The waste end of anything | |
| 11. n. (slang) A used cigarette. | |
| 12. n. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete, West of England) Hassock. | |
| 14. n. (generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end. | |
| 15. n. The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired. | |
| She was hit in the face with the butt of a shotgun. | |
| 16. n. (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury. | |
| 17. n. The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose. | |
| 18. n. The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib. | |
| 19. n. (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering. | |
| 20. n. (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, i | |
| 21. n. (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet. | |
| 22. n. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. | |
| 23. n. A mark to be shot at; a target. | |
| 24. n. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed. | |
| He's usually the butt of their jokes. | |
| 25. n. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice. | |
| 26. v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. | |
| 27. v. To strike bluntly, particularly with the head. | |
| 28. v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head. | |
| Rams butt at other males during mating season. | |
| 29. n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt. | |
| 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. | |
| 30. n. A thrust in fencing. | |
| 31. n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe. | |
| 32. n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons. | |
| 33. n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot | |
| 34. n. (dated, West Country, &, Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart. | |
| 35. n. (dated, West Country, &, Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow. | |
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