buns
adjective
bad, terrible, of poor quality
What does buns mean?
Buns is used as a slang adjective meaning “bad” or “terrible,” and is used to describe things of poor quality.
Examples of buns
Although spotty service sometimes makes communication difficult, he has found ways to make distance feel more manageable. “The service here is buns,” [Zachary] Lopes said.
—Sarah Peng, The Dartmouth (Dartmouth College), 12 Nov. 2025
Definitely a cool thing and all but… the concert itself was buns …
—The Bears play calling is buns
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Where does buns come from?
From the plural noun buns, which has been used to refer to the buttocks (chiefly in North America) since the mid-20th century.
Buns joins a number of posterior-related words used similarly, including butt …
… your lyrics is butt.
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… ass …
It’d be cool if the largest blue states had state and local governments that weren’t totally ass
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… and, more recently, cheeks:
Colorado’s defense is cheeks …
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How is buns used?
Buns often follows a form of the verb be, as in “this song is/was buns,” but buns can also pop up before the noun it describes:
Ouija was a buns movie, so why is the follow-up an amazing and underrated modern day horror classic!?
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