buttons

UK /ˈbʌt.ənz/ US /ˈbʌt.ənz/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

The dung of sheep.

2

A remote control.

3

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[…]"

4

A policeman.

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

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.

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