butt

1 a person or thing that is made fun of the social outcast got tired of being the butt of everyone's jokes Synonyms butt, derision, jest, joke, mark, mock, mockery, sport, targetRelated Words chump, dupe, fall guy, fool, gull, monkey, pigeon, sap, sucker, victimNear Antonyms darling, favorite, pet

2 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 Synonyms butt, mark, prey, sitting duck, victimRelated Words laughingstock, mockery, pilgarlic; lightning rod; fall guy, goat, scapegoat, whipping boyNear Antonyms gossip, gossiper, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, troublemaker; defamer, libeler, libelist, traducer; baiter, heckler, needler, ribber, taunter, tease, teaser, tormentor (also tormenter), torturer; derider, insulter, mocker, ridiculer, scoffer, scorner; caricaturist, lampooner, parodist, satirist

an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages a butt of hard cider that we had pressed ourselves Synonyms barrel, butt, firkin, hogshead, keg, kilderkin, pipe, puncheon, rundlet (or runlet), tunRelated Words scuttlebutt; cistern, tub, vat; can, drum