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butt

/bʌt/

noun34

  1. (US, informal) the bottom, the round part at the back of the body that a person sits on
  2. (US, informal) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
  3. The waste end of anything.
  4. A used cigarette.
  5. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
  6. (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
  7. The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end.
  8. An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
  9. The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
  10. The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
  11. The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
  12. The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
  13. The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
  14. A mark to be shot at; a target.
  15. A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
  16. (US, informal) Body; self.
  17. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
  18. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
  19. A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
  20. The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
  21. 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, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
  22. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
  23. A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
  24. (Wales, informal) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
  25. The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
  26. The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
  27. An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
  28. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
  29. A thrust in fencing.
  30. (Northern-England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
  31. (Ireland, old-fashioned) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
  32. (Ireland, old-fashioned) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
  33. (dialect, old-fashioned) The direction from which the wind blows.
  34. (no longer used) Hassock.

verb4

  1. To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
  2. To strike bluntly with the head.
  3. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
  4. (Canada) To cut in line (in front of someone).
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