butt out

English

Etymology

Modelled after butt in.

Pronunciation

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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)

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

Translations

to stop interfering

Esperanto: ne enmiksiĝi, ĉesi enmiksiĝi
Yiddish: נישט מישן זיך (nisht mishn zikh), אַרויסמישן זיך (aroysmishn zikh)

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