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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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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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