1. To strike, thrust or shove against
   "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"; "He butted his sister out of the way";
   - bunt
    
2. Share a boundary with or be adjacent to
   "Our property butts on to the national park"; "The property butts against the national forest";
   - border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt against, butt on
    
3. Place end to end without overlapping
   "The frames must be butted at the joints"

1. Thick end of the handle
   "a rifle butt";
   - butt end
    
2. [N. Amer, informal] The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
   "he deserves a good kick in the butt";
   - buttocks, nates [informal, technical], backside [informal], bum [Brit, informal], buns [N. Amer, informal], can [N. Amer, informal], fundament [informal], hindquarters [informal], hind end [informal], posterior [informal], rear [informal], rear end [informal], rump [informal], stern [informal], seat [informal], tail [N. Amer, informal], tail end [informal], tooshie [informal], tush [N. Amer, informal], bottom [informal], behind [informal], derriere [informal], patootie [US, informal], botty [informal], duff [N. Amer, informal], bahookie [UK, dialect, informal], booty [N. Amer, informal], heinie [US, informal], tushy [N. Amer, informal], derrière [informal]
    
3. The small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
   "He extinguished the cigarette butt in the ashtray";
   - stub
    
4. Someone who is the target of ridicule or pranks
   "He was always the butt of his coworkers' jokes";
   - stooge
    
5. A joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
   "The woodworker created a strong butt joint to connect the two pieces of lumber";
   - butt joint
    
6. A large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
   "The winery stored its finest vintage in oak butts"
    
7. Sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
   "The archer aimed carefully at the centre of the butt";
   - target
    
8. The part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
   "The gardener cut the rose bush down to the butt to encourage new growth"

Sounds like: but

Derived forms: butts, butted, butting

Type of: adjoin, barrel, body part, cask, component, component part, constituent, contact, dupe, joint, lay, meet, part, place, portion, pose, position, put, set, sports equipment, stock, strike, touch, victim

Part of: body, torso, trunk

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