Meanings
- African-American Vernacular; Louisville slang; African-American Vernacular; Louisville slangActing in a strange or deranged manner; tripping out, wilding.
not gonna lie, I'm on butt this month. 😭
2019 December 1, @UNSWEETICEDTEE, Twitter3 more examples
The black girls yellin' "Ah, he's on butt!" / Pretty sure that that's ebonics for "Ah shucks, he's gone nuts"
2014 November 7, “Materialize” (track 2), in Jack Harlow (lyrics), Finally Handsome"et mfs rey get on butt so i'm rey shake" is the most louisville sentence one can conjure
2019 November 21, @OchoBuckets, TwitterSo yeah Ms. Monae was on butt when she made sure to single out black men in her rant.
2023 May 12, @Craigs_VCR, TwitterSynonyms: non compos mentis
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseActing in a strange or deranged manner; tripping out, wilding.
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on butt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20butt
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