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butt

[buht] / bʌt /








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"That week my cousin, who hadn't done this before or since, just started to butt dial me every day and by the fifth day the light bulb moment came," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Gossip has whipsawed through Penn State group chats and become the butt of comment-section jokes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The robots might be the butt of the joke.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

Huffman’s characterization of Bree is three-dimensional and completely straight-faced, brimming with compassion and curiosity — and, really, so very funny, but without ever making Bree the butt of the joke.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Mom hasn’t made me laugh so hard since that time she took a balled-up sock out of a laundry basket and threw it at Dad’s butt.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

According to Wyoming paleontologist and study coauthor Jessica Lippincott, they are commonly nicknamed "squid butts" in the region.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

After being allowed to return home, the pair saw the van doors had been "blown off" and their contents emptied, with water butts and oil drums strewn on the ground.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The offside rule and promotion and relegation are the butts of repeated jokes and there are discussions of tactics, positions, formations and other game-related details that would have previously frustrated viewers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Taylor Swift fans have paid $25 for pieces of trash -- including cigarette butts and an ovulation test kit -- collected near the US pop queen's wedding to NFL star Travis Kelce.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

We sit, slowly inching our butts onto the roof, cradling the trunk against our chests and on our laps.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes


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