Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

butt dialing

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: but-t -di-al-ing
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The action of making a call from a cellphone in one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed

Canadian usage; American usage; Colloquial; Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of butt dial

Example Sentences

"I love this phone because it has GPS on it as well as the flip covers the keypad..so no more purse or butt dialing! LOL"
"[I'm curious why they would include such a feature in the first place.] Butt dialing. Especially since some phones call 911 if you hold down one key on the phone for several seconds, it's easy to accidentally dial 911. On certain Nextel phones you hold down "9" for a couple of seconds and it dials 911."
"The Moto-G is the only one without a fingerprint sensor, which probably means it's more vulnerable to butt-dialing, unless they have new techniques I'm not familiar with."

Usage

Questions

What does butt dialing mean?: The action of making a call from a cellphone in one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed

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