outbutt

English

Etymology

out- +‎ butt

Verb

outbutt (third-person singular simple present outbutts, present participle outbutting, simple past and past participle outbutted)

1. To butt with greater force than; to best in a butting match.
   • 1945 April 16, “Bighorn Sheep Trapping”, in Life:

     Old rams can almost always outbutt young ones but the young ones can run faster and few deaths occur.

   • 1957, H. H. Davis, The Distant Music, Popular Library, published 1957, page 254:

     […] 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.

   • 1990, John Kricher, Peterson First Guide to Dinosaurs, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 80:

     Perhaps male pachycephalosaurs established their dominance by outbutting rivals.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:outbutt.

Anagrams

• butt out