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Webster 1913 Edition
Buttons
But′tons
,Noun.
A boy servant, or page, – in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
[Colloq.]
Dickens.
Definition 2024
buttons
buttons
English
Noun
buttons
- plural of button
- (plurale tantum) 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 form of button