butt Значение & определение

Значение на butt на български

• 0 the part of a finished cigarette that has not been smoked

• 1 slang for bottom:

  • She told him to get off his butt and do something useful.

• 2 the thick end of a rifle (= gun) handle:

  • They struck him with their rifle butts.

• 3 to be a person who is joked about or laughed at:

  • He was sick of being the butt of their jokes.

• 4 a large container used to store liquids:

  • a rain/water butt

• 5 to hit something or someone hard with the head or the horns

• 6 the thick end of something, esp. a rifle (= type of gun)

• 7 the part of a cigarette that is left after smoking

• 8 a person’s bottom

• 9 a person who is joked about or laughed at:

  • He was fed up with being the butt of their jokes.

• 10 to hit the head hard against something, or to have the heads of two people or animals hit against each other:

  • [ T ] fig. She often butted heads with school officials in disagreements over her teaching methods.