butt

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 Synonyms backside, behind, booty (also bootie) [slang], bottom, breech, bum, buns, butt, caboose, can, cheeks, derriere (or derrière), duff, fanny, fundament, hams, haunches, heinie [slang], hunkers, keister (also keester) [slang], nates, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tush [slang]Related Words beam, stern; moon [slang]

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