butt heads

phrase

: to come into conflict

Examples of butt heads in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Snow sings about getting her princess groove back, butts heads with her Evil Queen stepmother (a campy Gal Gadot) and gets a little help from her short new friends. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026

In the final embers of the match, Haaland and Gabriel literally butted heads, the latter appearing to shove his brow into that of his opponent. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 5 July 2026

Both countries are publicly butting heads over a massive data leak at Coupang, a prominent online retail firm that is ubiquitous in daily South Korean life. — Kelly Kasulis Cho, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1714, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for butt heads

• bedspreads
• bedsteads
• blockheads
• bulkheads
• bullheads
• crossbreds
• embeds
• farmsteads
• foreheads
• hogsheads
• homesteads
• hotbeds