When you're standing in line and someone gets in line ahead of you, what do you call it? I grew up in western PA and most often heard it referred to as cutting in line. Less frequently, I heard jumping the line.
When we moved to WI, I learned the term here is budging. I heard it all the time when I worked at the local elementary school. "He budged!" "No budging!"
The first couple of times I heard it, I honestly had no idea what was meant. Is this another case of Wisconsin Weirdness or do people budge elsewhere?
"Cutting" is the most common term where I grew up (Southern California, Seattle area, then southwestern New Mexico). Somewhere in there I also encountered separate names for someone already in line letting someone else cut in front of them ("ups") or behind them ("backs"); in some situations neither was allowed, while in others you might be allowed to give someone "backs" but not "ups".
Like you, cutting is the most common in my experience. I never heard of budging for that action. And I probably would be confused by it without a visual demonstration.
I left Wisconsin in 99, so maybe that use came in later, but I never heard "budge" when I was there. I heard mostly "Hey, no cutting!" and occasionally "bumping."
That reminds me that we also used "butt in."
"He's butting in line."