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noun (1)

plural of butt
as in cheeks
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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butts

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noun (2)

plural of butt
1
as in jokes
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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2
as in targets
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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butts

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noun (3)

plural of butt
as in barrels
an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages a butt of hard cider that we had pressed ourselves

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butts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of butt
as in knees

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Recent Examples of butts
Noun
On the living-room table was a giant bowl filled with cigarette butts, which Beck said was for an art project. — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026 Our defense in that first half battled their (butts) off, gave us a chance, trying to get stuff going. — CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 The vaping industry says the technology saves lives and the cartridges are not nearly as bad a blight as cigarette butts. — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 Indeed, that whiskey was finished for two years in sherry butts. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2026 Who survives Over 50 years ago, Charlie Munger convinced his best friend, Warren Buffett, to ditch the proverbial cheap cigar butts for buying durable, high-quality businesses, centered around their economic moat. — Sanjot Malhi, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026 For now, Paramount isn’t producing the billion-dollar box office smashes that drive millions of butts into theater seats (not to mention robust sales of novelty popcorn buckets). — Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Aug. 2026 The toads had gone rogue, consuming native frogs, birds, insects, small marsupials, even Ping-Pong balls and cigarette butts flicked toward them at pubs—almost everything except the swarms of sugarcane beetles they had been imported to feed on. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026 Sacramento County is taking on some of the world’s largest tobacco companies — not over smoking, but over the billions of cigarette butts discarded every year and who should pay to clean them up. — Reeti Malhotra july 23, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for butts
  1. cheeks
  2. jokes
  3. targets
  4. barrels
  5. kicks
  6. bums
  7. victims
  8. pipes
Noun
  • The stranger’s hollow cheeks, his dark eyes, whose lashes always appeared wet, the bony shoulders that protruded from the singlet Chee Meng had lent him—all of it frightened Shawn.
    — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Not that Bieber needs much assistance, with dewy skin and softly flushed cheeks becoming central to the Rhode universe.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of cheeks
Noun
  • Television’s rise forced it to reinvent itself by introducing live disc jockeys who played music and told jokes.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • As a teenager, Davidson would sit in the back of the bus and write jokes on his way to and from basketball games and try them on his teammates.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of jokes
Noun
  • The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces overnight struck targets in Ukraine's southern Odesa region on the Black Sea coast with drones.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The interceptor uses hit-to-kill technology to destroy targets through direct impact.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of targets
Noun
  • Goldman Sachs was even more bullish, estimating that exports from Persian Gulf producers hit 19 million barrels per day.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Europe does not import Russian diesel, but other buyers of Russian diesel such as Turkey and Latin American countries must now compete with Europe for available barrels.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of barrels
Verb
  • The sequence culminates in the Great Hall, where Ned kicks part of his broken cane to Colum, who stabs MacKinney in the leg.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Then again, Samantha’s age in the text effectively kicks her out of acceptable ranges for a YA novel, which typically features main characters between twelve and eighteen years old.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of kicks
Noun
  • Within the often zany and slapstick realm of Bob’s Burgers, Tina still manages to steal the show with her singular voice, romantic fantasies, and obsessions with unicorns and boy bums.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Kennedy’s Albany is a vital, violent place, a hothouse of gangsters, pool hustlers, bums, crooked politicians, and showgirls.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of bums
Noun
  • One boat was traveling from Ubangi, in the northwest, to the capital of Kinshasa, and the other from Kinshasa to Lukolela, close to where the collision happened, Mputu said, and added that search efforts continue to find more victims and survivors.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
  • His National Film Board of Canada film goes beyond numbers to humanize the Iranian-Canadian victims of Flight PS752 who have long slipped from news headlines, even as their families continue an uphill battle to hold Iran accountable.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of victims
Noun
  • Since 2021, San Jose Water has invested more than $1 billion in infrastructure including pipes, pumps and plants.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Chemicals and pipes have been removed from the property during the investigation.
    — Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of pipes

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“Butts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butts. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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