buttons
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Noun
buttons
buttons (plural buttons)
- A remote control.
- (colloquial, dated) A boy servant, or page.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
- (slang) A policeman.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 78:
- ‘Go ahead, call the buttons. You'll get a big reaction from it.’
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 78:
Verb
buttons
- third-person singular simple present indicative of button
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buttons
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