Synonyms of butts

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noun (1)

plural of butt

as in cheeks

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 & Similar Words

• cheeks
• bums
• seats
• tails
• rumps
• behinds
• bottoms
• backsides
• fannies
• buttocks
• posteriors
• buns
• tushes
• haunches
• hams
• cans
• breeches
• rears
• heinies
• derrieres
• keisters
• booties
• cabooses
• rear ends
• nates
• hunkers
• tail ends
• duffs
• fundaments
• beams
• sterns
• moons

butts

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noun (2)

plural of butt

1

as in jokes

a person or thing that is made fun of

the social outcast got tired of being the butt of everyone's jokes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jokes
• targets
• fools
• sports
• victims
• jests
• pigeons
• monkeys
• suckers
• laughingstocks
• marks
• mocks
• gulls
• derisions
• mockeries
• chumps
• dupes
• saps
• fall guys

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pets
• favorites
• darlings

2

as in targets

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 & Similar Words

• targets
• victims
• prey
• sitting ducks
• marks
• goats
• laughingstocks
• lightning rods
• mockeries
• scapegoats
• fall guys
• whipping boys
• pilgarlics

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• troublemakers
• gossips
• tattlers
• gossipers
• tattletales
• tormentors
• torturers
• talebearers
• traducers
• defamers
• hecklers
• libelers
• baiters
• ribbers
• teasers
• needlers
• mockers
• teases
• taunters
• scoffers
• scorners
• satirists
• insulters
• deriders
• caricaturists
• parodists
• libelists
• lampooners
• ridiculers

butts

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noun (3)

plural of butt

as in barrels

an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages

a butt of hard cider that we had pressed ourselves

Synonyms & Similar Words

• barrels
• pipes
• kegs
• hogsheads
• casks
• puncheons
• firkins
• tuns
• tubs
• drums
• rundlets
• kilderkins
• vats
• cisterns
• scuttlebutt
• cans

butts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of butt

as in knees

Related Words

• knees
• kicks
• bumps
• shoves
• stamps
• jabs
• pushes
• taps
• flicks
• jostles
• pokes
• prods
• decks
• bunts
• floors
• strokes
• chops
• bowls (down or over)
• knocks down
• creams
• dumps
• levels
• scuffs
• licks
• fells
• boxes
• pelts
• peppers
• clubs
• spears
• cuffs
• socks
• brains
• slugs
• pummels
• claps
• belts
• clips
• canes
• mauls
• beans
• whips
• punches
• slaps
• buffets
• pounds
• whales
• laces
• smacks
• lashes
• bangs
• cudgels
• roughs
• stabs
• hits
• hammers
• batters
• skulls
• sucker punches
• thwacks
• drubs
• knocks
• saps
• clocks
• thumps
• swats
• raps
• nails
• clouts
• sledges
• bungs
• whacks
• busts
• bats
• mangles
• slashes
• flails
• bobs
• flogs
• switches
• bonks
• pommels
• rabbit-punches
• conks
• cracks
• bludgeons
• tags
• sledgehammers
• slams
• biffs
• smites
• thrashes
• bops
• lambastes
• bashes
• zaps
• wallops
• swipes
• beats
• clobbers
• pastes
• slogs
• strikes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of butts

Noun

The vaping industry says the technology saves lives and the cartridges are not nearly as bad a blight as cigarette butts. — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

Indeed, that whiskey was finished for two years in sherry butts. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2026

Who survives Over 50 years ago, Charlie Munger convinced his best friend, Warren Buffett, to ditch the proverbial cheap cigar butts for buying durable, high-quality businesses, centered around their economic moat. — Sanjot Malhi, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026

For now, Paramount isn’t producing the billion-dollar box office smashes that drive millions of butts into theater seats (not to mention robust sales of novelty popcorn buckets). — Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Aug. 2026

The toads had gone rogue, consuming native frogs, birds, insects, small marsupials, even Ping-Pong balls and cigarette butts flicked toward them at pubs—almost everything except the swarms of sugarcane beetles they had been imported to feed on. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026

Sacramento County is taking on some of the world’s largest tobacco companies — not over smoking, but over the billions of cigarette butts discarded every year and who should pay to clean them up. — Reeti Malhotra july 23, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026

Cigarette butts littered the ground; a motorcycle stuttered past, too loud. — Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

But disproportionately large and strong butts can lead to body imbalances that can lead to injury. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026