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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

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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

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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

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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

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butts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of butt
as in knees

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Recent Examples of butts
Noun
On the living-room table was a giant bowl filled with cigarette butts, which Beck said was for an art project. — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026 Our defense in that first half battled their (butts) off, gave us a chance, trying to get stuff going. — CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for butts
  1. cheeks
  2. jokes
  3. targets
  4. barrels
  5. kicks
  6. bums
  7. victims
  8. pipes
Noun
  • Her makeup is both fresh-faced and warm, with a hint of glowy—not shimmery—bronze on her cheeks and lids, and a generous dose of mascara without any discernible liner.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 23 Sep. 2026
  • After Swift appeared with Fazit’s Gold Speckles makeup patches decorating her cheeks, the brand reported a 3,500 percent increase in direct-to-consumer sales.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of cheeks
Noun
  • Television’s rise forced it to reinvent itself by introducing live disc jockeys who played music and told jokes.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • As a teenager, Davidson would sit in the back of the bus and write jokes on his way to and from basketball games and try them on his teammates.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of jokes
Noun
  • Users will be able to request information on security officers, informants or recruitment targets based on their name, date or place of birth, mother's name, code name and document type or number.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Roche stopped work on one of its obesity drug candidates, after clinical-trial data suggested the medicine did not hit internal targets, The Wall Street Journal tells us.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of targets
Noun
  • To be fair, according to Freddie this is actually explicable, based on an apple wine recipe Booker used to make using apples, bourbon barrels, and cinnamon.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2026
  • For the second mission, there are barrels stacked on two carts.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of barrels
Verb
  • Brents, who had a knee injury surface this past week, was available to play his key role as the third cornerback in for nickel packages, going to the boundary while rookie Chris Johnson kicks inside to cover the slot.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Jake Elliott kicks a 61-yard field goal as time expires to give the Philadelphia Eagles a 27-24 victory over the New York Giants.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of kicks
Noun
  • Within the often zany and slapstick realm of Bob’s Burgers, Tina still manages to steal the show with her singular voice, romantic fantasies, and obsessions with unicorns and boy bums.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Kennedy’s Albany is a vital, violent place, a hothouse of gangsters, pool hustlers, bums, crooked politicians, and showgirls.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of bums
Noun
  • During a meeting with French bishops on Sunday morning, Leo praised their response to victims and urged them to continue.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
  • South African police said Monday that another body of a woman was discovered in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, bringing the total number of female victims recently found in the area to 11.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of victims
Noun
  • Think again of a gigantic system of pipes, each of which is open or closed with a certain probability.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Jacob Markstrom and Akira Schmid will now be between the pipes for Florida.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of pipes

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“Butts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butts. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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