Prankster's patsy

Usage examples of butt.

It was useless to take them to task, to inform them that this behaviour instead of easing their plight only brought out the worst in their superiors and made them the butt of every perceived mistake aboard ship.

Information is crammed together-ads butting up to other ads with no editorial relief In every other conceivable media environment, advertising is interrupted by other information.

Duff, a New Zealand anthropologist who has made a special study of adze distributions, claiming that no adzes with butts tanged as an aid in lashing the handles have been established for Western Polynesia, whereas tanged adzes have been found throughout Eastern Polynesia, has argued that this is not in accord with what one would expect from random voyaging.

A lodger alighting outside her rented accommodation in Newington Butts would draw attention to herself.

To be the butt of a joke was nothing compared with the humiliation of not handling the alky, of falling asleep on watch.

At my feet the dog was whimpering in frustration and the armadillo was noisily butting its head against the units.

She snorted, sounding remarkably like Arra, sat down, and licked her butt.

Knowing which side to duck to can mean the difference between bathing the babe in bechamel sauce and burning your butt on a Bessemer converter.

Magnussen was a smoker, and though Becker knew the office had been cleaned by the night staff, two ashtrays overflowed with cigar butts, and there were ashes on the floor.

So the best thing for you is probably to work your butt off trying to help the captain find Beeker, so we can get off this planet and back to Zenobia before your nose falls off.

I flew out of bed, rushed to the window, and threw the curtains open in time to see Morty Beyers smash the alarm to smithereens with his gun butt.

Dragged the bipod legs an inch to the left and swung the butt a fraction to the right.

The Israelis make them with wire cutters in the bipods and bottle openers on the butt.

Keira was sure there was no such thing as the word bitable, but it described his butt to the maximum.

For himself he kept a sort of oversized blunderbuss with a harness instead of a gun butt.