Butt
Butt verb - Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary.
Shift
Shift verb - To change the place or position of.
How words are described
| full | full butt | full shift |
| clear | clear butt | clear shift |
| long | long butt | long shift |
| complete | complete butt | complete shift |
| Other adjectives: real, constant, large, big, huge, major, extra, occasional, bigger, creepy, biggest. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When you said that you would liquefy every man in the tavern if one of them grabbed my butt again during my shift, I didn't think you meant it!
Source: Not Hyperbole - Bookends: The film begins and ends the same way: With a shift change, a Marine tapping the butt of the machine gun, and sighing.
Source: Webcomic / Terminal Lance -
Makoto Nanaya of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift does this as her back throw, which has knocking her opponent on their back and then jumping and landing on them butt-first.
Source: Ass Kicks You
Cite this Source
Shift and Butt. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/butt/shift
Butt & Shift. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/butt/shift>.
Shift or Butt. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/butt/shift.
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