butt1 nounbutt2 verb
buttbutt1 /bʌt/ noun [countable] 
Entry menuMENU FOR buttbutt1 part of your body2 cigarette3 be the butt of something4 gun5 get your butt in/out/over etc6 work/play etc your butt off7 container8 hitting with your head
Word OriginWORD ORIGINbutt1
ExamplesOrigin:
1-2, 4-6 1400-1500 Origin unknown. 3 1300-1400 Old French but ‘target, goal, end’7 1400-1500 Old French botte8 1500-1600 ➔ BUTT2EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Thesaurus- Get your butt on a bird, Slick, and let's make Bad Money.
- He slammed the butt of the weapon on my cargo deck and the thing went off.
- I scraped cigarette butts and bloodied mashed potatoes off plates, dumped half-eaten steaks and broken lobsters into bins.
- Pool, so often the butt of soccer jokes, on the threshold of the First Division?
- The butt part has a higher ratio of lean to bone than the shank part and is often priced higher.
- The water butt juggles with raindrops.
- This team has really taken to both of us out there busting our butts.
- Witnesses told of beatings with rifle butts and sticks and the use of bayonets and guns, he said.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone that people make fun of► the butt of something/somebody
Collocations the person that someone often makes fun of or makes jokes about: · New Jersey used to be the butt of TV comics.the butt of jokes/humour: · His name has already made him the butt of many jokes.
► laughing stock if you are a laughing stock , a lot of people laugh at you because you have done something stupid or are very bad at something: · We can't do that - we'd be a laughing stock!laughing stock of: · When they crashed to defeat, they were the laughing stock of the tennis world.
to work extremely hard► slave away informal to work very hard at something you do not enjoy and do not want to do: · I've been slaving away all week and I've had enough of it!slave away at: · Ed had been slaving away at his essay for hours, but it still wasn't finished.slave away to do something: · The poor man spent ten years of his life slaving away to pay back the money they had borrowed.
► work your fingers to the bone informal to work extremely hard for a long time - use this when you are complaining about how hard you have to work: · In those days we got up at 5 in the morning, and worked our fingers to the bone.· His mother had had a hard life - had worked her fingers to the bone bringing up six children.
► work your butt/ass off American spoken to work very hard, especially for a period of time on one particular thing - use these only in situations where you know people well as they are considered impolite by many people: · It hasn't been easy. The truth is I've worked my ass off for everything I've achieved.work your butt/ass off to do something: · Lea worked her butt off to graduate with honors and big scholarships.
► toil formal to work hard for a long time, especially doing work that is boring or difficult: · Men. women and children spent long hours toiling in the fields, whatever the weather conditions.toil to do something: · Roger and his wife toiled round the clock for seven years to make a success of their business.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a cigarette butt
Phrases (also a cigarette end British English) (=the part that remains when you have finished smoking it)· The ashtray was full of old cigarette butts.
► be the butt of a joke (=be the person a joke is made about, so that people laugh at you)· Somehow he’d become the butt of all his classmates’ jokes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► big· I had one eye that crossed and always had the biggest butt in the neighborhood.
NOUN► cigarette· He nodded his thanks as he took it and flipped another cigarette butt into the toilet.· She had a cigarette butt between her lips and a genial look on her face.· An earlier cigarette butt smouldered in the grate.· Some had cigarette butts, ground glass and bits of cloth glued to their inside surfaces.· She thought ruefully of the cigarette butt, and of Johnny's small handful of apple tree leaves.· I scraped cigarette butts and bloodied mashed potatoes off plates, dumped half-eaten steaks and broken lobsters into bins.· Food and cigarette butts had been trodden into the precious carpet.
► rifle· Witnesses told of beatings with rifle butts and sticks and the use of bayonets and guns, he said.· Soldiers dispersed the peasants with rifle butts, and by nightfall, violence was sweeping through the province.· Her rifle butt had given him a nasty knock, but there would be no lasting damage.
► water· Then there's a water butt up by the back door; and some honeysuckle growing over the porch.· They say there are schemes available that could be implemented, such as the simple water butt.· Her next move was towards the water butt.· With a water butt, the water is collected and can be used for gardens.· After I fell in the water butt.· The water butt juggles with raindrops.· He always used to tuck it underneath the water butt.· These days, water butts are made of glass reinforced plastic.
VERB► become· As soon as you were noticed you became the butt for other peoples jokes and worries.· When brand names become the butt of jokes, trouble could lie ahead.· Vologsky himself became the butt for smutty jokes and innuendoes.· It was not long before such people became the butt of the intellectuals.· If anything, it is the westerners who become the butt of the jokes.· These phantom parties increasingly became the butt of Sukarno's scorn.
► bust· This team has really taken to both of us out there busting our butts.
► cover· We're also wondering why the university is now covering its butt legally with this half-hearted gesture.
► kick· While he spreads his malicious malpractice throughout time, you've been chosen to kick his butt.· They tease you with the 3 and kick your butt with the two.· Then we went out and they kicked our butts all over the court.· I was gon na kick his butt.· And this time, he aims to kick some earthling butt.· You learn from them by getting them to kick your butt.· We came back and kicked their butt.
► work· Meanwhile, Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs.· I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.· I worked my butt off in basketball and stayed on the varsity-in fact, did well.· In short, I worked my butt off.· You could have worked your butt off helping a rep and you finally got the rep doing everything right.· I work my butt off for you, while that restaurant is doing worse and worse.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be the butt of something► get your butt in/out/over etc► work/play etc your butt offPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► get off your butt/ass► kick somebody’s ass/butt► work your butt/ass/arse off
1part of your body American English informal the part of your body that you sit on SYN buttocks: - Unfortunately for Ted, he's become the butt of jokes around the office.
- At the time, you were the butt of some very unkind jokes?
- He never dreamed he would be the butt of such a classic, almost vaudevillian joke.
- He took a beating today but he played his butt off.
- I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
- I work my butt off for you, while that restaurant is doing worse and worse.
- I worked my butt off in basketball and stayed on the varsity-in fact, did well.
- In short, I worked my butt off.
- Meanwhile, Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs.
- You could have worked your butt off helping a rep and you finally got the rep doing everything right.
- I work my butt off for you, while that restaurant is doing worse and worse.
- I worked my butt off in basketball and stayed on the varsity-in fact, did well.
- I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
- In short, I worked my butt off.
- Meanwhile, Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs.
- You could have worked your butt off helping a rep and you finally got the rep doing everything right.
a baby’s soft little butt → be a pain in the butt at pain1(3)2cigarette the end of a cigarette after most of it has been smoked3be the butt of something to be the person or thing that other people often make jokes about: Paul quickly became the butt of everyone’s jokes.4gun the thick end of the handle of a gun: a rifle butt5get your butt in/out/over etc American English spoken used to rudely tell someone to go somewhere or do something: Kevin, get your butt over here!6work/play etc your butt off American English spoken to work, play etc very hard: I worked my butt off in college.7container British English a large round container for collecting or storing liquids: a rainwater butt8hitting with your head the act of hitting someone with your headbutt1 nounbutt2 verb
buttbutt2 verb [intransitive, transitive] Word OriginWORD ORIGINbutt2
Verb TableOrigin:
1400-1500 Old French boter ‘to push’VERB TABLE
butt
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | butt |
| he, she, it | butts | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | butted |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have butted |
| he, she, it | has butted | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had butted |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will butt |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have butted |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am butting |
| he, she, it | is butting | |
| you, we, they | are butting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was butting |
| you, we, they | were butting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been butting |
| he, she, it | has been butting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been butting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be butting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been butting |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Thesaurus- He wriggled around in her arms, then turned and butted his head against her shoulder, lightly but repeatedly.
- I wake with a touch on my face and turn sideways butting my head into darkness.
- Or butted a marshal with his head.
- The same consideration stopped me from butting the animal.
- Those who butt in because they are curious, nosy and feel entitled to the involvement they seek.
- Through the front window lay a sprawl of hills, but the window above my bed butted the neighbour's garage.
- Use the special ready-mixed adhesive recommended and hang by butting up one tile to the next.
Longman Language Activatorto stop someone when they are speaking► interrupt
Collocations to start speaking when someone else is already speaking: · I wish you wouldn't interrupt all the time.· I'm sorry I interrupted you.· He apologised for interrupting her speech.
► butt in spoken to interrupt someone rudely: · Will you please stop butting in!· Mom, Joe keeps butting in and he won't let me finish my story.
► cut in written to interrupt someone before they have finished talking, so that you can say something: · "There's this nice guy . . .' "I'm not interested,'' Roz cut in, laughing.· Lila cut in again, answering before he could even open his mouth.
► cut somebody off/cut somebody short to interrupt someone before they have finished what they were going to say: · Her elder brother cut her off sharply -- 'I won't have you speaking to your mother like that!'· I'm sorry to cut you short, Mrs Shaw, but I'm afraid we've run out of time.
► break in to join a conversation by interrupting someone or by saying something suddenly: · "Sam, what on earth are you talking about?' she broke in at last.· 'That's enough,' the guard broke in impatiently. 'Hurry up and say goodbye.'break in on: · The tutor finally broke in on Sam's monologue, much to the relief of the rest of the class.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a cigarette butt
Phrases (also a cigarette end British English) (=the part that remains when you have finished smoking it)· The ashtray was full of old cigarette butts.
► be the butt of a joke (=be the person a joke is made about, so that people laugh at you)· Somehow he’d become the butt of all his classmates’ jokes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► in· Jamila butted in to add details and keep us up to date.· Those who butt in because they are curious, nosy and feel entitled to the involvement they seek.· He kept on butting in with silly comments.· These individuals tend to butt in for the attention they will get.· I didn't mean to butt in, but we're already late, thanks to me getting lost.· The problem is, they butt in after every song to remind you of it.· Nine times out of ten they're both totally wrong and sometimes I have to stop myself from butting in.· I'd rather you didn't butt in at this stage - and nothing for the record.
► out· The kid is your friend and they should butt out.
VERB► kick· Mortal Kombat Three humans kick butt to save the universe; they should have saved the movie first.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► get off your butt/ass► kick somebody’s ass/butt► work your butt/ass/arse off
1to hit or push against something or someone with your head2if an animal butts someone, it hits them with its hornsbutt in phrasal verb1to interrupt a conversation rudely: - I work my butt off for you, while that restaurant is doing worse and worse.
- I worked my butt off in basketball and stayed on the varsity-in fact, did well.
- I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
- In short, I worked my butt off.
- Meanwhile, Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs.
- You could have worked your butt off helping a rep and you finally got the rep doing everything right.
Stop butting in!2to become involved in a private situation that does not concern youbutt in on They don’t want outsiders butting in on their decision-making.butt out phrasal verb especially American English spoken used to tell someone rudely that you do not want them to be involved in a conversation or situation: This has nothing to do with you, so just butt out!