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It is what happens to you ear when you pick up a Butt Dial before the inadvertent caller quickly hangs up as you are listening.
Jimmy gave me a case of Butt Ear when his phone kept butt dialing me on his walk.
Butt ear by JOC3NJ December 18, 2022

ear-buttons 

1. The skinny cartilaginous wings lining the anterior edge of the external auditory canal. Also called the tragus.

2. The magical buttons that when pushed, hide unwanted garbage-noise from entering the skull.
Do you always stick your fingers in your ear-holes when you hear Counting Crows?

No, I just push my ear-buttons.

What are those?

The little wings outside your ear; you push them onto your ear so you don't get your fingers gross with earwax.

Sounds complicating. I think I'll just stick with wax-fingers.
ear-buttons by Barnaby J. July 6, 2008

Ear butter 

When a voice is so smooth it is described as butter (but for your ears and not your mouth because it's sound and not food)
"damn dude, that guys voice is ear butter"
Ear butter by Jeff Dunham October 26, 2017

ear butter 

I can't hear you cuz I gots the ear butter, yo.
ear butter by cybertoothhellcat November 12, 2007
When a person has their headphones/earbuds in a public place and someone else rudely interrupts/butts in.
Rachel is sitting on the bus listening to Lady Gaga.
Mike: Hey what's the weather like tomorrow?
Rachel: Dude, stop earbutting!!
Earbutt by 541465168198741 June 29, 2018

flophouse 

Any house/apartment/frat house/trailer/etc. which is used for individuals to crash (sleep, chill, hang out, lurk, etc.) for a period of time. In order to "crash", one must not actually live there (e.g. have their name on the lease, own said flophouse, etc.). Flophouses are typically used by college students, drug addicts, transients, vagrants, or other unsavory characters.

A flophouse may also be the home owned by the parents of a college student, who after being away at college, wishes to live as if he/she is still at college (e.g. staying out all night, returning just to crash at mom and dad's house, then leaving again), rather than conforming to the pre-college rules.
Example #1
Dude: (Talking to someone passed out face first on the floor of his college apartment) Hey man, who the hell are you? What do you think this is, a flophouse??

Bro: Sorry dude, I must have passed out for a minute.

Example #2
Mom: Where have you BEEN for the last three days? You come home just to sleep?? What do you think this is, a flophouse??!!

Son: What's your problem? I'm an adult now!
flophouse by J3553 November 21, 2007
Word of the Day on July 27, 2026