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buttload

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buttload

rude slang A lot; an abundance (of something). I'm sorry, I can't go—I've got a buttload of homework tonight. Wait, that's a buttload of boxes. You don't expect us to move all of them, do you? Why are you surprised Dave has detention? He'd racked up a buttload of demerits.
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buttload

and shitload
mod. a lot; a large amount. (Usually objectionable.) I know we can sell a buttload of these recordings—if we can only get a shipment of them in time. I’ve got a shitload of problems and no idea how to work through them.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The second is as a base rifle for someone who wants a .308 but doesn't want to spend a metric buttload of cash on a fully featured rifle when they'll be changing a lot of the details anyway.
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New entries include the words "scareware", which means malicious computer programmes, "trackpad" (touchpad) and "buttload" (a large amount).
"I sort of begged Kurt to take the 'Bono Talk' because, f*** it, if I had listened to it I'd have avoided a buttload of trouble for myself."
But boy was it good for the time, and boy did both the government and the rest of us buy a metric buttload of them.
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