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butt chin en · NOUN

Etymology

From its resemblance to the buttocks.

Meanings

1. (Canada, US, slang) A cleft chin.
   • Aria sneaked a peek at Sean. Her eyes kept gravitating toward the little cleft in his chin. Ali used to call them "butt chins," but it was actually pretty cute. 2008, Sara Shepard, Flawless, page 206:
   • He had a chin on him, a butt-chin, with a dimple in it. 1995, John Sandford, Night Prey:
   • "I guess he does have a butt chin." 2004, Hailey Abbot, Summer Boys, page 79:
   • Alex barked a laugh, surprising both of them. "Butt chin? What does that mean?" "It's got a crack in it, like a butt. Daddy had the butt chin, too." 2010, Beth Williamson, Unbridled:
   • His most distinctive feature was his cleft chin. Some people jokingly referred to it as a “butt chin.” Sheppard's dimpled chin wasn't at all unsightly. 2007, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Sullivan's Evidence, page 334:
   • He bent down slowly and got so close to my face, I could see the lines in his glossy, unchapped lips and the stubbled hairs in the crack of his butt-chin. page 123 And I told him everything; his perfect teeth glistened, a dimple flattered his flawless butt-chin. 2004, Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher, Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End page 107
   • Katie immediately noticed a deep cleft in his chin. “Butt chin” was what the kids at school called it. 2010, Scott Pratt, Injustice for All:
   • He had a cleft chin, or as Matt whispered to me, a butt chin. 2006, Carol Weston, Melanie in Manhattan, page 261:
   • Still looking lost and confused, Clive scratched his butt-chin, looked me in the eye with both pupils constricted, and full of uncertainty, he stammered as he fired yet another question. 2011, C. Lazarus, Father on the Loose!:

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