"butt of attack" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to be the object or target of an attack or criticism. Example: The politician became the butt of attack during the press conference, as journalists grilled him about his controversial policies.
But if Zerzan has been the butt of attacks from the conservative media, he also has few friends on the organised left.
As with many of these sketches, Schumer makes herself the butt of the joke, while attacking the systems that establish these stereotypes.
The National Health Service has become the butt of increasingly outlandish political attacks in the US as Republicans and conservative campaigners rail against Britain's "socialist" system as part of a tussle to defeat Barack Obama's proposals for broader government involvement in healthcare.
England had earlier given serious consideration to abandoning the series, with Strauss, the captain, revealing in a strongly worded statement that the players had "strong misgivings" in the wake of Butt's verbal attack on the team's integrity but had agreed to play on.
I was even the butt of one of Bill O'Reilly's attacks and have challenged him to an on-air debate.
Siddle brought control, forcing the batsmen to play and making them chase scoring opportunities, using the crease to vary his angle of attack, swinging the ball nicely and butting his way into the fray like a battleship into the waves.
Private Chen was the son of Chinese immigrants in Manhattan, and he had written to his parents about being the butt of racial jokes, but it's not clear that racism was a primary reason for the attack.
The butt of his humour is a group so ostentatiously righteous that few commentating on the Booker mentioned Jacobson's attack.
(Kohler, a teenager at the time, was attacked by some strikers' children and escaped by hitting one of them with the butt of a pistol).
