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A butt is the thicker or blunt end of something: the butt of a rifle, a cigarette butt.
A butt is also a target for shooting practice or ridicule: the butt of the joke.
In archery and shooting, butts are the mounds or targets.
A butt is also a large barrel for wine or ale, typically holding about 126 gallons.
To butt is to strike with the head or horns: The goat butted him.
In informal usage, butt means buttocks—milder than ass: Get off your butt.
A pain in the butt.
Butt is acceptable in most company where ass might offend.
Butt in means to intrude; butt out means mind your own business.
Humorous statement seeking laughter
- laughingstockOne publicly mocked
- targetObject of pursuit
- ridiculeContemptuous mocking treatment
- scornHostile dismissive feeling
derision · fool · dupe · patsy · stooge · fall guy · sucker · victim
Wooden storage barrel
- kegSmall beverage barrel
- tunLarge brewing cask
- hogsheadLarge liquid storage barrel
- wineFermented grape beverage
beer · ale · storage · cellar · stave · cooper · bung · spigot
Retained portion after detachment
- endFinal portion or cessation
- filterPorous separation device
- ashtrayCigarette disposal dish
- smokeAirborne combustion byproduct
tobacco · extinguish · dispose · litter
Adult male sheep
rear
Back portion or raise
rump · posterior · seat · hindquarters · derriere · bum · tush · glutes · cheeks · keister
joke
Humorous statement seeking laughter
- laughingstockOne publicly mocked
- targetObject of pursuit
- ridiculeContemptuous mocking treatment
scorn · derision · fool · dupe · patsy · stooge · fall guy · sucker · victim · object
cask
Wooden storage barrel
wine · beer · ale · storage · cellar · stave · cooper · bung · spigot
stub
Retained portion after detachment
smoke · tobacco · extinguish · dispose · litter
ram
Adult male sheep
jostle · prod · poke · gore · bunt · knock · jab · thrust · collide
aim
Purpose or direction
marksmanship · dartboard · rifle range · practice · arrow · quarry · mark · objective
buttjoker
Cutup or wild card
comedian · mocker · perpetrator · instigator · ridiculer
- pain in the buttSource of constant annoyance
- butt inInterject without welcome
- butted inInterrupted without permission
- butting inInterrupting without permission
- bubble buttRounded, prominent buttocks
- kick buttSucceed impressively, overwhelmingly
butts, buttress, butting, rebuttal, headbutt, butted, abutting, abutment, abutted