butt out

English

Etymology

Modelled after butt in.

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Verb

butt out (third-person singular simple present butts out, present participle butting out, simple past and past participle butted out)

  1. (intransitive, Canada, US, slang, derogatory) To stop interfering; mind one's own business.
    The government should butt out of people's private lives.

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