Meaning

1 senses
  1. (Canada, US, informal)A nuisance; a source of trouble or annoyance.

    The customers love it, but the employees think the new system is a pain in the butt.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. It was a real pain in the butt.

  2. Michael was always a pain in the butt.

  3. Vladimir is useless and just a pain in the butt.

  4. Good journalists are what Americans call a pain in the butt.

  5. John was a huge pain in Jessica's butt.

Forms

plural: pains in the butt
Singularpain in the butt
Pluralpains in the butt

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Synonyms

4 synonyms
source of trouble or annoyance:pain in the neckpain in the bumpain in the backpain in the rear

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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