Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Canada, US, derogatory, intransitive, slang)To stop interfering; mind one's own business.

  2. (idiomatic, imperative)To tell someone rudely to leave them alone or not get involved in what they're doing.

    The government should butt out of people's private lives.

Examples

6 sentences

  1. Tom threw his cigarette butt out the car window.

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  2. Get your butt out of here.

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  3. Get your butt out of here, Ziri.

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  4. Ziri kicked Rima's butt out of his mansion.

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  5. Ziri wanted to get Rima's butt kicked out of school.

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Origin

Modelled after butt in.

Modelled after butt in.

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Forms

butts out, butting out, butted out, butted out
Base formbutt out · to butt out
3rd person singularbutts out
Present participlebutting out
Past simplebutted out
Past participlebutted out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybutt out
he, she, itbutts out

Past simpleLesson

all personsbutted out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave butted out
he, she, ithas butted out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill butt out

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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