BUTT IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butt in mean? 

• BUTT IN (verb)
  The verb BUTT IN has 1 sense:

1. break into a conversation

  Familiarity information: BUTT IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTT IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Break into a conversation

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

barge in; break in; butt in; chime in; chisel in; cut in; put in

Context example:

her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation

Hypernyms (to "butt in" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "butt in"):

disrupt; interrupt (interfere in someone else's activity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

It would have been better, as it turned out, to have led gently up to this announcement, for Mrs. Micawber, being in a delicate state of health, was overcome by it, and was taken so unwell, that Mr. Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)