buttons

Definitions

1. 1

   plural of button

2. 2

   The dung of sheep.

3. 3

   A remote control.

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   1. 4

      A 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[…]"
   2. 5

      A policeman.

      • ‘Go ahead, call the buttons. You'll get a big reaction from it.’
   3. 6

      Synonym of marbles (“sanity

      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, […]
   4. 7

      A small South African plant of the genus Conophytum, with button-like succulent leaves…

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

   5. 8

      third-person singular simple present indicative of button

The neighborhood