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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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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
Broken bottles, cigarette butts, and waste—plastic and otherwise—came in and out with the tides. — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Nov. 2026 The endless snapshots of parties, wallpaper covered in butts, the many photographs of Kate Moss, videos of fashion shows, enlarged ad campaign stills—very little of it is good. — Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2026 The committee heard substantial evidence that construction workers had smoked on site, and several cigarette butts and some partially burned materials, such as cardboard boxes, were found on the flat roof. — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026 But is that still the case when half the Real Housewives have extensions down to their butts? — Molly Mulshine, InStyle, 30 Oct. 2026 On a visit to the Bargello sculpture museum in Florence, Italy, a 3-year-old friend of mine was fascinated by its statues’ naked butts. — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026 In the early days, London was still a city of smokers, and Daunt would count cigarette butts on the sidewalk to gauge how many passersby had stopped to look. — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 Any piece of trash that's smaller than 2 inches is considered micro-litter, with cigarette butts being the most common. — Katie Standing, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for butts
  1. cheeks
  2. jokes
  3. targets
  4. barrels
  5. kicks
  6. bums
  7. victims
  8. pipes
Noun
  • Gold eyeshadow wrapped around the 29-year-old TV personality’s eyes, paired with long swooping lashes placed on the outer corners of her top lids and bright pink blush placed high on her cheeks.
    — Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
  • From there, people may develop white spots on the insides of the cheeks near the molars and a blotchy rash of flat, red spots.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of cheeks
Noun
  • The jokes have spread across X, Reddit and other platforms, turning a corporate leadership crisis with potentially serious national security implications into a seemingly endless supply of entertainment.
    — Steve Mollman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2026
  • Offill sprinkles in jokes to highlight the unnerving selfishness and relentless competition of humanity in the face of horror.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of jokes
Noun
  • Its onboard guidance architecture combines multiple technologies to help identify targets without depending entirely on external navigation or communication links.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The switch to McCarthy has clearly impacted his targets and yardage, but in their Week 5 tie against Washington, Likely was virtually uncoverable against the Commanders’ linebackers and secondary.
    — Jonathan Rubin, Charlotte Observer, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of targets
Noun
  • In his opening address, Al Jaber warned that nearly a billion barrels had been drawn from global oil inventories since the disruption of Hormuz, illustrating how quickly geopolitical instability can affect global energy supplies.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Metcalf told Fortune last month that even Saudi Arabia’s plan to send 10 million barrels of oil a day around Hormuz may barely move prices.
    — Steven John, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of barrels
Verb
  • There is a short wave trough that kicks through early Friday morning.
    — Ron Smiley, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The Royals hope to get under the 40-man roster threshold before the 2027 offseason kicks into high gear after the World Series.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of kicks
Noun
  • Zellers poured the foundation, and Morrison hired fellow ski bums to do the framing, masonry, and tiling.
    — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of bums
Noun
  • American women, being birthed as special victims with special status, are not.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Two of the victims were grazed by bullets, and a 20-year-old man was shot in the abdomen, WSOC reports.
    — Mark Price November 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of victims
Noun
  • Originally designed to help farmers join wire on their fences, Gripple now makes devices for a multitude of industries with a focus on installing pipes and ductwork.
    — Jane Miller, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
  • The sinking will be carried out not with explosives, as was the past norm, but by opening valves connected to huge, disconnected boiler pipes to allow water to flood in.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of pipes

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“Butts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butts. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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