Meaning of collar button | Babel Free

Definitions

A button for fastening a collar.

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Examples

“Take a tip—Flat collar buttons don’t roll under the bed nor stick out like a wart on the back of your neck—Thomas & Messing 10c.”

““I got that dimple from sleeping with my face on a collar button,” coldly explained the dentistress.”

“There are sporty ones with tracksuits, straight backs and gelled hair; slumping city types fresh from work with their collar buttons undone; solitary, lumpy, middle-aged guys; and an original hippy with orange trousers and a hat that is unnecessarily tall.”

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