"butt dial" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: butt dials [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} butt dial (plural butt dials)
  1. (Canada, US, colloquial) A situation when one's cellphone makes a call from one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed Tags: Canada, US, colloquial Categories (topical): Telephony Synonyms (accidental call): pocket dial
    Sense id: en-butt_dial-en-noun-xsmVWt27 Disambiguation of Telephony: 48 52 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 47 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54

Verb

Forms: butt dials [present, singular, third-person], butt dialing [US, participle, present], butt dialling [Commonwealth, participle, present], butt dialed [US, participle, past], butt dialed [US, past], butt dialled [Commonwealth, participle, past], butt dialled [Commonwealth, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=++|past2_qual=Commonwealth|past_qual=US|pres_ptc2=++|pres_ptc2_qual=Commonwealth|pres_ptc_qual=US}} butt dial (third-person singular simple present butt dials, present participle (US) butt dialing or (Commonwealth) butt dialling, simple past and past participle (US) butt dialed or (Commonwealth) butt dialled)
  1. (Canada, US, colloquial) To accidentally make a call this way. Tags: Canada, US, colloquial Categories (topical): Telephony Synonyms (accidentally call): pocket dial
    Sense id: en-butt_dial-en-verb-vacEtdDa Disambiguation of Telephony: 48 52 Categories (other): American English, Canadian English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 47 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54

Inflected forms

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