butt

:  a blow or thrust usually with the head or horns a head butt to the ribs

1 :  a large cask especially for wine, beer, or water

2 :  any of various units of liquid capacity; especially :  a measure equal to 108 imperial (see ¹imperial 4) gallons (491 liters)

1a :  a backstop (such as a mound or bank) for catching missiles shot at a targetb :  targetc butts plural :  range 5c a shooting buttd :  a blind for shooting birds

2a obsolete :  limit, boundb archaic :  goal here is my journey's end, here is my butt — William Shakespeare

3 :  an object of abuse or ridicule :  victim the butt of all their jokes

1 :  buttocks slipped and fell on his butt —often used as a euphemism for ass in idiomatic expressions get your butt over here kick butt saved our butts

2 :  the large or thicker end part of something:a food :  a lean upper cut of the pork shoulderb :  the base of a plant from which the roots springc :  the thicker or handle end of a tool or weapon the butt of a rifle

3a :  an unused remainder (as of a cigarette or cigar)b slang :  cigarette

4 :  the part of a hide or skin corresponding to the animal's back and sides

:  abut —used with on or against where the floorboards butt against each other The apartment building butts up against an old church.

1 :  to place end to end or side to side without overlapping butt the boards together

2 :  to trim or square off (something, such as a log) at the end

3 :  to reduce (something, such as a cigarette) to an unused remainder by stubbing or stamping :  to reduce to a butt (see ⁵butt 3a)

:  a target of ridicule or hurtful humor He became the butt of their jokes.

1 :  the part of the body on which a person sits

2 :  the thicker or bottom end of something the butt of a rifle

3 :  an unused remainder a cigarette butt

:  to strike or thrust with the head or horns

:  a blow or thrust with the head or horns