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Butt
Butt is the shared spelling of several English homonyms: a verb meaning to strike with the head (c. 1200, Old French boter), a thick end (c. 1400), a wine cask of 108 to 140 gallons, an archery target, and slang for the buttocks.
Butt plug
A butt plug is a sex toy inserted into the anus, with a tapered body and flared base that keep it safely in place once inserted.
Butt-Numb-A-Thon
Butt-Numb-A-Thon (BNAT), Harry Knowles's annual 24-hour film marathon at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, 1999–2017, mixing secret premieres with cult films for about 200 selected attendees.
Butta Bomma (బుట్ట బొమ్మ) (film)
Butta Bomma (బుట్ట బొమ్మ) is a 2023 Telugu romantic drama, official remake of Malayalam film Kappela, directed by Shouree Chandrashekhar T Ramesh, starring Anikha Surendran, Arjun Das, and Surya Vashistta, released 4 February 2023, streaming on Netflix.
Butte
A butte is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small flat top, formed by erosion of a plateau or mesa, typically in arid regions.
Butte County, California
Butte County, California: original 1850 county in the northern Sacramento Valley, seat Oroville, largest city Chico; population about 211,632 (2020); site of the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise.
Butte, Montana
Butte, Montana: former copper-mining city, seat of consolidated Butte-Silver Bow government, once the "Richest Hill on Earth" supplying a third of world copper, a labor-movement center, and now a major Superfund site with the Berkeley Pit.
Buttechno
Buttechno is the alias of Pavel Milyakov, a Russian experimental techno producer from Moscow, based in Berlin since 2022 and known for labels like RASSVET.
Butter
Butter is a solid dairy fat with over 80% lipid, made by churning cream; also called beurre. Distinguished from ghee (99.6% milk fat) and margarine (vegetable oils); main fatty acids palmitic, myristic, oleic.
Butter (2011 film)
Butter (2011 film), also released as Butter (2012) in the US, is a Jim Field Smith comedy written by Jason Micallef, starring Jennifer Garner, Ty Burrell, and Yara Shahidi in an Iowa butter-carving contest satire of the 2008 election; 91 min, R, $70.9K US gross.
Butter (song)
Butter is a 2021 dance pop single by South Korean group BTS, their second English-language release after Dynamite; it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, spent 10 non-consecutive weeks there, set YouTube and Spotify day-one records, and earned a Grammy nomination.
Butter (バター) (novel)
Butter (バター) is a 2017 novel by Asako Yuzuki, inspired by the Konkatsu Killer case, following journalist Rika Machida's interviews with killer-cook Manako Kajii; its 2024 Polly Barton translation won Waterstones Book of the Year 2024 and the British Book Awards Debut Fiction 2025.
Butter chicken
Butter chicken (murgh makhani, मक्खन मुर्ग़ा) is a Delhi restaurant dish of tandoor-roasted chicken in a tomato-butter-cream gravy, linked to Moti Mahal and contested between the Gujral and Jaggi families in a 2024 lawsuit.
Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!
Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! is the eighth studio album by American rock band Counting Crows, released May 9, 2025 through BMG and completing the 2021 EP Butter Miracle: Suite One.
Butter tart
Butter tart, a classic Canadian pastry with a filling of butter, eggs, and sugar, often with raisins or nuts; first printed recipe 1900 in Barrie, Ontario; related to tarte au sucre and pecan pie.
Butter tea
Butter tea (po cha, bod ja) is the churned Tibetan and Himalayan drink of strong brick tea, yak or cattle butter, and salt, a daily high-altitude staple with regional forms such as Bhutanese suja and Ladakhi gur-gur chai.
Buttercream
Buttercream, also called buttercream frosting, is a butter-and-sugar cake frosting in styles such as American, Swiss meringue, Italian meringue, French, German, and ermine, differing in egg base, sweetness, and heat stability.
Butterdon Linea
Butterdon Linea: a 1,900-km-long linea (linear fracture) on Jupiter's moon Europa, IAU-approved 2003, named for a stone row in England; a Galileo E26 plume source was located near it.
BUtterfield 8
BUtterfield 8 (1960) is an MGM drama directed by Daniel Mann, adapted from John O'Hara's 1935 novel about call girl Gloria Wandrous; Elizabeth Taylor won her first Best Actress Oscar for it, and the film cost $2.5 million and grossed $9 million domestically.
Butterfield Overland Mail
The Butterfield Overland Mail, also called the Butterfield Stage, was a stagecoach service carrying mail and passengers from St. Louis and Memphis to San Francisco from 1858 to 1861.
Butterfinger
Butterfinger is an American candy bar with a crisp peanut-butter brittle core and chocolate-flavored coating, created in 1923 by Otto Scherning of Curtiss Candy, owned by Nestlé from 1989 and by Ferrero since its 2018 $2.8 billion acquisition.
Butterflies (TV series)
Butterflies (1978–1983) is a BBC2 sitcom by Carla Lane starring Wendy Craig as restless housewife Ria Parkinson, with Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst, and Bruce Montague; 28 episodes, four series, Dolly Parton theme.
Butterflies Are Free
Butterflies Are Free: 1972 Columbia comedy-drama film by Milton Katselas from Leonard Gershe's Broadway play; blind Don Baker (Edward Albert) and Goldie Hawn; Eileen Heckart won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
Butterfly
Butterfly: day-flying Lepidoptera insect with clubbed antennae and scaled wings, undergoing complete metamorphosis (egg, larva, pupa, adult). Distinct from moths; tropical speciation, declining populations, monarch IUCN Vulnerable since 2023.
Butterfly (1982 film)
Butterfly (1982 film), also known by its source novel The Butterfly by James M. Cain: a Matt Cimber drama starring Pia Zadora, Stacy Keach, and Orson Welles about an incest trial in 1937 Nevada, infamous for Zadora's contested 1982 Golden Globe win and 1983 Razzie Awards.
Butterfly (2025 TV series)
Butterfly is a 2025 Prime Video spy thriller adapted from the BOOM! Studios graphic novel by Arash Amel, starring Daniel Dae Kim as David Jung, a former operative in South Korea hunted by his assassin daughter Rebecca (Reina Hardesty); six episodes, canceled October 2025.
Butterfly (Crazy Town song)
"Butterfly" is a 2000 single by American rap rock band Crazy Town, from The Gift of Game. Built on a Red Hot Chili Peppers "Pretty Little Ditty" sample, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 2001, the band's only Hot 100 hit and the only rap-rock or nu-metal song ever to reach number one.
Butterfly (Mariah Carey album)
Butterfly is Mariah Carey's sixth studio album, released September 16, 1997 by Columbia after her split from Tommy Mottola; it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with about 236,000 first-week sales and shifted her sound to hip-hop-inflected R&B.
Butterfly diagram
The butterfly diagram is a time–latitude plot of sunspots, first drawn by Edward Maunder in 1904, showing spots migrate from mid-latitudes toward the equator over each solar cycle.
Butterfly effect
The butterfly effect, or sensitive dependence on initial conditions, is a property of chaotic systems in which an arbitrarily small change in starting state grows into large differences in later behavior.