head-butter

plural head-butters

1. alternativeAlternative form of headbutter.

   The second chap, Adrian Ameche, was a head-butter; he loved to butt his head against walls.

   2006, Nana S. Achampong, i, immigrant, page 330

   2 more examples

   The big guy came running at me with his hands open to grab me, which might have meant he was a wrestler. But more likely it just meant he was a head-butter who wanted to yank me toward him, and then smash my face in with his forehead.

   1995, Jerome Doolittle, Half Nelson: A Tom Bethany Mystery, page 103

   ...during a week when he had been accused of headbutting one of his players — I went on the air and said I didn't know whether Knight was a head-butter or not, but I did know that he was a butt-head for his comment.

   2001, Dick Schaap, Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines, Deadlines & Punchlines, page 508