Butt | Mean of butt in English Dictionary

/ˈbʌt/

• Noun
• the part of the body you sit on
1. He slipped and landed on his butt. [=(chiefly Brit) bum]
2. These exercises will make your butt firmer.
3. Why don't you get off your butt and do something? [=why don't you stop being so lazy and do something?]
4. Get your butt over here! [=come over here now]
5. She really saved my butt. [=she helped me out of a difficult situation]
6. He worked his butt off [=he worked very hard] to finish on time.
• the thicker end of a weapon or tool
1. the butt (end) of a rifle
• the end part of a cigarette or cigar that is not smoked
1. a cigarette butt

• a cigarette
1. She went out to buy some butts.
• a person who is treated badly or is made fun of
1. As a child, she was a clumsy girl who was the butt of everyone's jokes. [=people made jokes about her because she was clumsy]
• Verb
• to hit or push (something) forcefully with the head
1. A few punches were thrown, and then one boy butted the other before a teacher broke up the fight.
2. She got butted by an angry goat.
3. We saw the goat butt against the gate until it opened.
• to disagree about how something should be done
1. They've butted heads over the issue a number of times.
• to get involved in something (such as a conversation or someone else's activities) especially in a rude way
1. I realize you're trying to help, but I wish you wouldn't butt in. You're only making things worse.
2. Sorry to butt in (on you) like this, but I need to ask you a question.
• to stop being involved in something (such as a conversation or someone else's affairs)
1. This has nothing to do with you! I wish you would just butt out!
2. They told me to butt out of the conversation.
• Noun
• a forceful hit or push with the head
1. a head butt in/to the ribs
• Verb
• to place something right next to something else or to be right next to something else
1. We laid the boards so that the ends were butted against the wall.
2. The floorboards are weakest where they butt (against each other). [=where they meet, where the ends of the boards touch each other]
3. The apartment building butts up against an old church.