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"butt dial" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the unintentional act of placing a phone call when someone has their phone in their pocket or sitting on a hard surface and dials without realizing it. For example: "I must have butt dialed you, sorry about that!".
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butt dial
verb
To accidentally make a call this way.
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The lid also means there's never an opportunity to pocket call, otherwise known as the butt dial.
Snyder and Chivvis did more research into cell-phone practices of 1998 and learned that the incriminating "Nisha call" could indeed have been a butt dial.
An armada of GoPros greatly enhanced the coverage of last year's America's Cup, in San Francisco Bay, but perhaps they'd shed less light on the mysteries of an N.F.L. line of scrimmage: one imagines indecipherable grunting and rustling, the filmic equivalent of a butt dial.
Even if it's a butt dial.
But, as Dana says, "Even if the Nisha call could potentially be a butt dial, in the realm of possibility, maybe it was a butt dial.
His most prized possession is a voicemail his dad left him during a butt dial". .
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Don has been butt dialling over the past 48 hours.
I must have butt dialled you!", thereby achieving the amazing double feat of making him think of my butt and forcing him to speak to me.
None of the calls went through and Bates told police these were accidental butt dials.
Earlier this month, a dispatcher in Ottawa County, Michigan told Newsweek his local branch had been receiving accidental butt dials from Apple Watches at least 10 times a day.
But I also find that it's sometimes possible to accidentally trigger the screen when removing the phone from a pocket or bag, making potential modern equivalents of butt dials a real possibility.
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