butt hinge

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noun

a hinge for a door or the like, secured to the butting surfaces rather than to the adjacent sides of the door and its frame.Compare flap (def. 20a).

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Origin of butt hinge

First recorded in 1780–90

Words nearby butt hinge

butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth, buttery, buttfuck, butt-fucker, butthead, butt hinge, butthole, butthurt, butt in, butting, buttinsky

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How to use butt hinge in a sentence

Complete male reproductive independence would also hinge on artificial womb technology, which also made headlines in 2014.
Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Thus begins an episode of The Mindy Project centered around a guy trying to have butt sex with his girlfriend.
Year of the Butt: How the Booty Changed the World in 2014|Kevin Fallon|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was the epitome of Kim Kardashian, and a fitting summation of the Year of Butt.
Year of the Butt: How the Booty Changed the World in 2014|Kevin Fallon|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The reality TV mogul bared her butt—and everything else, too—for Paper Magazine in a spread that sent Twitter into a tizzy.
Kim Kardashian Cheekily Breaks the Internet|Kevin O’Keeffe|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

But, Adnan suggest that Jay butt-dialed Nisha by mistake on his phone and accidentally left a two-minute voicemail.
The Scoop on ‘Serial’: Making Sense of The Nisha Call, Asia's Letters, and Our Obsession|Emily Shire|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
During this conversation Harry's right hand was resting beneath his jacket, grasping the butt of his revolver.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
Never did events of the utmost magnitude hinge on incidents so trivial to the community at large.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
There is no part of these castings but may be easily conveyed in a common butt or cart.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
The beverage warmed him in body; but it would need a butt of it to thaw the misery from his soul.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
Laidlaw threw his heavy bulk against the door, burst lock and hinge, and sent it flat on the garret floor.
The Garret and the Garden|R.M. Ballantyne

British Dictionary definitions for butt hinge

butt hinge

noun

a hinge made of two matching leaves, one recessed into a door and the other into the jamb so that they are in contact when the door is shutsometimes shortened to butt 1

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