butt

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butt

1. noun, informal A shortening of "buttocks." He slipped on the ice and landed right on his butt.

2. noun, slang A cigarette. Hey, Larry, give me a butt, will you? I left my pack in the car.

3. noun, slang The end of a cigarette that has not been burned. Use the ashtray for your butts.

4. noun, slang An unpleasant or unlikable person. Come on, don't be such a butt, Tony. Lend the guy a couple bucks. My teacher is such a butt! Who gives pop quizzes two days in a row?

5. adverb, slang Used as an intensifier of an adjective, especially "ugly." Oh man, that sofa is butt ugly. Who'd want to sit on that horrid thing?

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butt

(bət)

1. n. the buttocks. (Colloquial. Potentially offensive, although heard almost everywhere. See the complete list of all entries with butt in the Index of Hidden Key Words.) She fell right on her butt.

2. n. a cigarette butt. Don’t leave your butts in the houseplants!

3. n. a cigarette of any kind. You got a butt I can bum?

4. n. someone or something that is disliked. (see also boody.) The guy’s a real butt. A real squid.

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