nuts to butts
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: nuts-to-butts
Senses: examples: text: I’m a bastard jewboy in the promised land
with a big hairy ass and a pocket full of sand
livin’ nuts to butts and asshole to bell
ref: 1984 May 4, Jon Sugar, “A Sweet and Sonr Look at Jon Sugar”, in Alex MacDonald, Bay Area Reporter, volume XIV, number 21, page 22:
text: Lawrence Rich gave away his iced tea and forced down two grape drinks before lining up "nuts to butts" to leave the room.
ref: 1988 October 28, James M. Shannon, “Narrative” (chapter VI), in The Report of the Investigation of Attorney General James M. Shannon of the Class 12 Experience at the Edward W. Connelly Criminal Justice Training Center, Agawam, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office, page 63:
text: Like where else could he go? We’re harnessed together nuts to butts.
ref: 2003, Rita M. Ippoliti, “Tandem City” (chapter 6), in Falling into Place, Kryos Publishing, page 128:
text: Another yelled out, “Let me see nuts to butts, c'mon, people, nuts to butts, ladies! This ain't fucking gay, get used to it now! Nuts to butts!”
ref: 2011, Dara Odoe Sok, Engagement in Peril, Xlibris, page 504:
text: The vehicles were stacked nuts to butts, with little room to pass between them.
ref: 2017, Walt Browning, Charlie's Requiem: Resistance, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Ironically, I found myself playing peacekeeper, urging elderly English ladies to respect the line, much like I would back in Dehli’s while disembarking from airplanes where people found the need to stand “nuts to butts” while pushing forward.
ref: 2023 September 27, Maximilian Sebastian Sterling, “Rethinking the Stereotype: The English and Queuing Misconceptions”, in Medium, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
glosses: Closely one behind the other.
raw_tags: of people
examples: text: Many had never ridden on a train before and were excited as children. They piled in willy-nilly, everywhere, finding room where they could. It was so crowded that some had to stand up in the aisles, nuts to butts, but they didn’t mind.
ref: 2005, Richard Lee Pulgham, The Hogs of Cold Harbor: The Civil War Saga of Private Johnny Hess, CSA, Whitmore Publishing Co., page 93:
text: “When I got down there they already had about 20 crazy fuckers packed together nuts to butts in the same cell smellin’ like fart. I was like, get me the fuck outta here.”
ref: 2008, Nick Garafola, Hot Metal Boys, Cold Piece Books, page 48:
text: De La Soul, the iconic Long Island hip-hop trio, performed last Saturday to a capacity crowd at Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom. It was "nuts-to-butts crowded," as my Tennessee friends like to say.
ref: 2014 March 17, Mark Sanders, “Denver fans explain why De La Soul still matters”, in Westword, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: If it had not been a weekend, the borough would have been quieter. Moreover, the morning crowd would have soon been out, and the area overwhelmed with commuters walking, biking, and driving to work, or packed nuts to butts on public transportation.
ref: 2017, William Hunter, Sanction, […], →ISBN, page 47:
text: Maybe it does take a village. But what if the damned village in question is nuts to butts full of idiots? —Lieutenant Jack Rivera
ref: 2018, Lois Greiman, Unsweetened, NYLA, page 227:
text: There's no point in arguing, they believe they are superior and anyone who doesn't live nuts to butts in an overcrowded city is stupid.
ref: 2024 June 27, @dane_berggren, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2024:
glosses: Crowdedly, tightly, compactly.