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button

1. n. the termination of a recitation; the punch line of a joke; a zinger. (The equivalent of a button punched to signal a response.) When I got to the button, I realized that I had told the whole joke wrong.

2. n. a police officer’s badge or shield. The guy flashed his button, so I let him in.

See:

• a hot button
• be as bright as a button
• be as cute as a button
• belly button
• bright as a button
• button
• button (one's) lip
• button down
• Button it!
• button lip
• button nose
• button up
• Button your lip!
• button-down
• buttoned-down
• cactus buttons
• cute as a button
• Dad fetch my buttons!
• have a/ finger on the button
• have all one's buttons
• high-button shoes
• hit the panic button
• hot button
• lose (one's) buttons
• lose one's buttons
• not have all (one's) buttons
• on the button
• press (someone's) buttons
• press the panic button
• press the right button
• push buttons
• push someone's buttons
• push the panic button
• Well, bust my buttons!