What is the meaning of BUTTONS. Phrases containing BUTTONS
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Playground name for anyone who had a nervous tic, after one of the "Unit" kids who called himself Billy Buttons and went around asking everyone to play with him at every opportunity.
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Have all your buttons is slang for bright, clever.
n policeman. May come from the copper buttons policemen originally wore on their uniforms; may also be derived from the Latin “capere,” which means “to capture.” In turn, the American word “cop” may be derived from copper, although may equally easily be an abbreviation for “Constable on Patrol” or “Constable of the Police.” There. I don’t think I committed to anything.
Passenger conductor on railroad or streetcar line
  Buttons and other Hawkers small wares.
Buttons and bows is London Cockney rhyming slang for toes.
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Engineer, so called from the large initial on membership buttons of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
A game played by little boys (mostly) in which they run around holding one hand over their genitals while trying to grab those of the other boy. The game is played with trousers on, although in the 1940s one version was played in which the aim was to rip open the fly-buttons of the opponent. The name derived from the action - i.e. a squirrel gathers nuts. (ed: I wonder whether this is still played now in these enlightened times? Maybe it's played with a different name? Suggestions welcome)
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In the early days of computing, every byte a computer used had to be earned. Companies like Microsoft were able to produce entire operating systems on a single 360 KB floppy disk. Then came Windows. Then came Visual Basic. Then came bloatware which is a software programme with more bells and whistles, buttons and bows in the terms of capabilities than you can shake a stick at. The downside is that even with faster chips, bigger Hard Disks, and larger allocations of RAM, these monster programs run no faster than their predecessors.
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A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works.
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A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.
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A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.
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A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.
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Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
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A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.
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Ornamented with a large number of buttons.
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A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livery.
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To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
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To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
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The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
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Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.
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To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.
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Having knops or knobs; fastened as with buttons.
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An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.
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Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.
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