as in backside
the part of the body upon which someone sits
park your butts in the seats and keep quiet, or I'm turning this car around
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as in joke
a person or thing that is made fun of
the social outcast got tired of being the butt of everyone's jokes
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as in target
a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule
usually the U.S. Congress is the butt of the radio commentator's scathing wit
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as in to kick
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Recent Examples of butt
Grace Edquist, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2025
Life there was not exactly paradise, and over six years, the residents often butted heads in a small community where everyone was out for themselves.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 22 Aug. 2025
Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
In the Mets’ clubhouse, Soto’s lack of speed is the butt of good-natured ribbing.
—Will Sammon, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Breasts, pubic hair, lips, eyes, knees, butts—nothing was off-limits in her exploration of the body.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2025
Life there was not exactly paradise, and over six years, the residents often butted heads in a small community where everyone was out for themselves.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
Those guys just haulin' butt around on there will be pretty amazing to see.
—Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
In the Mets’ clubhouse, Soto’s lack of speed is the butt of good-natured ribbing.
—Will Sammon, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butt
Verb
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Go ahead and then play around and kick the tires on doing some vibe coding.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The same applies if a ball is kicked into the end zone and then bounces out of bounds.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Steil said the funds to increase the pilot program stipend were previously allocated and have been repurposed to bump it up to $10,000.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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High Potential ended its first season by confirming that Morgan’s estranged ex is alive and well, thus bumping the search for Ava’s father to the top of Morgan’s priority list moving forward.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
16 Sep. 2025
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Matthew Gurich, the deputy seen on video shoving the woman outside the jail in downtown Sacramento, was fired from the Sheriff’s Office in April.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Cate reaches her hand out to try and push Marie into complying, but Jordan intercepts and uses their energy-blasting powers to shove Cate backwards, hitting a wall.—
Olivia Singh,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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On Wednesday, New York mayoral favorite Zohran Mamdani launched a public petition, calling on FIFA to make tickets to 2026 World Cup games—including the final in New Jersey—affordable, pushing the international soccer organization to set aside 15% of seats for locals in particular.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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This happens when water in front of the tire builds up faster than the vehicle's weight can push water out of the way.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Sep. 2025
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Even Kendall Vertes, who also starred on Dance Moms, posted a TikTok video playfully jabbing at the fact that Siwa was in anything but her casual outfits.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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Riyadh Season opened with a punch — literally — as viral clips showed Mike Tyson jabbing YouTube star MrBeast alongside Saudi entertainment chief Turki Al-Sheikh.—
Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Keep communication open by avoiding poking fun at these practices.—
Ashleigh N. DeLuca,
Parents,
16 Sep. 2025
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Gibson proceeded to the Children’s Chorus room, where two staffers welcomed her to poke through the costume racks.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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But consumers can now tap $3,500 in annual benefits, according to American Express, mostly in the form of credits offsetting purchases made on the card, more than twice the previous level.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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The future of this rapidly expanding means of devising software by tapping into the generative capabilities of modern-era AI, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Grok, Gemini, and other large language models, will be discussed.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The first step of doing that would be creating a unique conversation ID at the first touch and stamping it on every chat, call, portal click and email.—
Tayfun Bilsel,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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While 10 teams across South America, Asia, Oceania have already joined hosts Canada, Mexico and the United States in stamping their ticket to next June’s tournament, everything is still to play for in European qualifying.—
Jack Bantock,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Butt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butt. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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