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Etymology

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From out- +‎ butt.

Verb

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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.

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