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View synonyms for butt in

butt in



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Idioms and Phrases

Interfere, interrupt, intrude. For example, Mom is always butting in on our conversations , or It's against the law for employers to butt in on personal matters . This term alludes to the thrusting of an animal with its horns. [ Slang ; 1890s]
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Example Sentences

Reinforcements and another butt-in at it, I233 expect, surmised Kentucky.

Sure, it never wa'n't none of my butt-in, but I used to tell old man Fairfax that Ranlett was narrer between the horns.

Sure enough it's none of my butt-in what sort of thing you do.

Unless you'll say outright that I'll be a butt-in, I'm going with you.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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