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Buttload

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons. UK, West-Country, obsolete

    "BUTT LOAD: about six seams."

  2. 2
    A large amount carried in a butt. British, New-England, Southern-US, dated

    "We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans."

  3. 3
    Any large but unspecific amount. broadly, mildly, slang, vulgar

    "You can collect a metric buttload of data about user activity on your site without too much effort."

Etymology

From butt + load. Butt in this context may be possibly one or both of: * butt (“large wooden cask”) (Etymology 3) * butt (“two-wheeled cart”) (Etymology 5) Alternatively, the term may either be a corruption of English boatload or have been influenced by that term (except for the specific, West Country dialect sense). All senses above also synchronically reanalyzed as buttocksful.

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