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butt heads

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Definition of butt heads

as in argue

to express different opinions about something often angrily Our boss tries not to schedule Rosie and Mark for the same shifts, since the two often butt heads.

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Recent Examples of butt heads In the final embers of the match, Haaland and Gabriel literally butted heads, the latter appearing to shove his brow into that of his opponent. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 5 July 2026 Both countries are publicly butting heads over a massive data leak at Coupang, a prominent online retail firm that is ubiquitous in daily South Korean life. — Kelly Kasulis Cho, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026

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