Old rams can almost always outbutt young ones but the young ones can run faster and few deaths occur.
1949 — H. O. Crisler, Modern Football: Fundamentals and Strategy, Whittlesey House (1949), page 30:
He will usually succeed in this if the offensive men merely lock horns with him and try to outbutt him.
1957 — H. H. Davis, The Distant Music, Popular Library (1957), page 254:
[…] and finally a cigar-drummer down at the saloon offered him a two-gallon jug of whiskey if he could outbutt the saloonkeeper's old billy-goat out in the backyard.
1959 — The Sportsman's World, Henry Holt and Company (1959), page 106:
They won't move off the rails; they pay no mind to whistles and bells, and sometimes a punchy old bull thinks he can outbutt a locomotive.
Glancing out the window, his brother spotted a neighbor's billy goat squaring off with 6-year-old Andy. As he watched, a contest ensued and little Andy somehow outbutted the goat.
1970 — Carroll Carroll, None of Your Business: Or, My life with J. Walter Thompson (Confessions of a Renegade Radio Writer), Cowles Book Company, Inc. (1970), page 60:
His act was to let the goat butt him and then, as a finale, he outbutted the goat, skull to skull.
1980 — Gene Perret, Hit or Miss Management: The World's First Organic, Natural, Holistic, Environmentally Sound Management Technique, J. P. Tarcher (1980), →ISBN, page 24:
It's as if one day a knock-kneed ram accidentally outbutted all of the opposition and then had the power to declare that henceforth all contenders for the head of the herd must come from the knock-kneed school of leadership.
1990 — John Kricher, Peterson First Guide to Dinosaurs, Houghton Mifflin Company (1990), →ISBN, page 80:
Perhaps male pachycephalosaurs established their dominance by outbutting rivals.
Whereas Bunyan was a lumberjack in ten-league boots, John Henry a railroad roustabout who refused to let the steam hammer get him down, Old Pete a Tampa longshoreman who could outbutt a billy goat, […]
Verb: "to have a shapelier or more aesthetically pleasing buttocks than"
