on butt

English

Prepositional phrase

on butt

1. (African-American Vernacular, Louisville slang) Acting in a strange or deranged manner; tripping out, wilding.

   Synonyms: non compos mentis; see also Thesaurus:insane

   • 2014 November 7, “Materialize” (track 2), in Jack Harlow (lyrics), Finally Handsome‎^[1]:

     The black girls yellin' "Ah, he's on butt!" / Pretty sure that that's ebonics for "Ah shucks, he's gone nuts"

   • 2019 November 21, @OchoBuckets, Twitter‎^[2]:

     "et mfs rey get on butt so i'm rey shake" is the most louisville sentence one can conjure

   • 2019 December 1, @UNSWEETICEDTEE, Twitter‎^[3]:

     not gonna lie, I'm on butt this month. 😭

   • 2023 May 12, @Craigs_VCR, Twitter‎^[4]:

     So yeah Ms. Monae was on butt when she made sure to single out black men in her rant.

Further reading

• “on butt”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.