Meaning of Buttons | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Button.
2. The dung of sheep.
3. A remote control.
   colloquial
4. A boy servant, or page.
   colloquial, dated
5. A policeman.
   slang
6. Synonym of marbles (“sanity; mental faculties”).
   colloquial
7. A small South African plant of the genus Conophytum, with button-like succulent leaves covering its exterior.

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Examples

“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[…]"”

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

“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, […]”

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