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English
Etymology
From out- + butt.
Verb
outbutt (third-person singular simple present outbutts, present participle outbutting, simple past and past participle outbutted)
- To butt with greater force than; to best in a butting match.
1945 April 16, “Bighorn Sheep Trapping”, in Life:Old rams can almost always outbutt young ones but the young ones can run faster and few deaths occur.
1957, H. H. Davis, The Distant Music, Popular Library, published 1957, page 254:[…] and finally a cigar-drummer down at the saloon offered him a two-gallon jug of whiskey if he could outbutt the saloonkeeper's old billy-goat out in the backyard.
1990, John Kricher, Peterson First Guide to Dinosaurs, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 80:Perhaps male pachycephalosaurs established their dominance by outbutting rivals.
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