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butch

Definition

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(Adult / Slang)
1. Masculine, macho, virile, or tough, regardless of gender or gender identity. Synonym: bull.

Quotes:

(1) Cyber-chatter Iceman, Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) and Cyberbob in The Net (1995):
-- Iceman: ' So, what do you want in a man? '
-- Angela: ' Butch, beautiful, brilliant, Captain America meets Albert Schweitzer. Spends all day dashing into the Free while making world safe for democracy; at night playing Bach Cantatas while curing cancer.'
-- Cyberbob: 'Settle for a guy who puts the seat down? '

(2) Captain (Geoffrey Lewis) to Cash (Kurt Rusell) dressed in drags in Tango and Cash (1989): ' I suggest you slip into something a little more butch.'

2. Noun and adjective to describe a masculine-looking lesbian, especially one who dresses and behaves in a stylized masculine manner; a mannish lesbian.
Synonyms: boon dagger; boonch; bootch; bull; bull bitch; bull-dagger; bull-dike(r); bull-dogger; bumper; butch lesbian; butch dagger; butz; diesel dyke; dike; dyke; top-sergeant.

3. In lesbian relationships, the partner who assumes the active or dominant (male-identified) role as opposed to femme, the passive or submissive (female-identified) partner.
See also: femme; butch/femme.

4. In gay parlance: a) butch is synonymous with active, top, dominant; b) a butch number , is a virile, but non-accessible heterosexual male. He's strictly butch, all man.

5. In teenspeak, a close-cropped haircut. Synonym: crew cut.



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