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buttons

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈbʌt.ənz//
  • /[ˈbʌt.n̩z]/
  • /[ˈbʌʔ.n̩z]/

The dung of sheep.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of buttonplural of button

noun

  1. 1

    The dung of sheep.

  2. 2

    A remote control.

  3. 3

    datedA boy servant, or page.

    A Custum' Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons, "said the Jack , repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt , “when they comes betwixt him and his own light[…]"

  4. 4

    slangA policeman.

    ‘Go ahead, call the buttons. You'll get a big reaction from it.’

  5. 5

    Synonym of marbles (“sanity; mental faculties”).

    And we've got that other boy now, Ganesh something, I met him once, and I didn't understand a word he was saying, but the child seems to have all his buttons.

    That night in his room before he'd left for New Orleans, Lewis had behaved like he didn't have all his buttons.

    In the quaint vernacular of old Dad Peppin, Zion Jore might not have all his buttons, but he had more of what he did have than most men—more imagination to conceive a plot, more daring to carry it out, no fear to hamper him, […]

  6. 6

    A small South African plant of the genus Conophytum, with button-like succulent leaves covering its exterior.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of buttonthird-person singular simple present indicative of button

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).