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outbutt en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + butt.

Meanings

1. To butt with greater force than; to best in a butting match.
   • Perhaps male pachycephalosaurs established their dominance by outbutting rivals. 1990, John Kricher, Peterson First Guide to Dinosaurs, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 80:
   • […] and finally a cigar-drummer down at the saloon offered him a two-gallon jug of whiskey if he could outbutt the saloonkeeper's old billy-goat out in the backyard. 1957, H. H. Davis, The Distant Music, Popular Library, published 1957, page 254:
   • Old rams can almost always outbutt young ones but the young ones can run faster and few deaths occur. 1945 April 16, “Bighorn Sheep Trapping”, in Life:

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