butt-in n.
1. concern, affair; usu. in negative phr. none of one’s butt-in.
![]() | More Ex-Tank Tales 47: I didn’t figure that it was my butt-in. | |
![]() | Pop. 1280 (1990) 10: But that wasn’t none of my butt-in. |
2. a meddler, one who interferes.
![]() | Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 97: Me cookee. No want flesh butt-ins ’round! | |
![]() | Sun. Times (Perth) 14 Sept. 25/4: Gaseous butt-ins have no right to argue as to how the cash should be cast around. | |
![]() | Record (Hackensack, NJ) 30 Mar. 26/2: ‘You’re just a butt-in,’ said the Chief Executioner. | |
![]() | (con. 1900s) Shootist 75: It was some nobody, some butt-in with a secret compulsion to use a gun. |
3. a gatecrasher.
![]() | Philosophy of Johnny the Gent 31: [He] breaks himself buyin’ Christmas presents fer [...] a few aunts an’ cousins an’ some more butt-ins that a feller forgets is on earth. | |
![]() | Torchy 92: There was only a few lady butt-ins that had strayed over from the shoppin’ district and smelled out a free show. |