butt in

Idioms  

1. 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

One way cinemas are challenging YouTube and Netflix is by trying harder to book movies that will actually put butts in seats.

From The Wall Street Journal

A boy near me butted in: "Wow, you don't get this?"

From Salon

Vance showed himself as a confident, affable speaker, frequently making off-the-cuff jokes and at one point, turning to the camera and telling his children watching on television to “get your butts in bed.”

From Los Angeles Times

So what if you don’t want Meta AI butting in every time you search for something or scroll through your social feeds?

From Seattle Times

But a blatting voice butted in, and it was not royalty.

From Literature