butt end

plural butt ends

1. The thick end of something.

   With the butt end of an admonitory pencil he indicated the unopened trap.

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

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   Then the X-Files being Looking like some kind of blue-green Jackie Chan with Isabella Rossellini lips And breath that reeked of vanilla Chig Champa Did a slo-mo Matrix descent out of the butt-end of the banana vessel And hovered above my bug-eyes, my gaping jaw

   2006, “Rosetta Stoned”, performed by Tool

2. broadlyThe bread heel.
3. The windowless end of a building.

   Opposite the signal the line on one side is shut in by a high blank wall; on the other side are houses, but coming below the butt-end of a scullery the signal does not happen to be visible from any road or from any window.

   1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados

present singular third person butt ends · participle present butt ending · participle past butt ended · past butt ended

1. transitivehobbiesTo jab (a player) with the knob of a hockey stick (incurring a penalty).