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button
noun- a police badge US, 1929
- — Hyman E. Goldin, Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 38, 1950
- He said, “Folks, you got that button? Those Mau Mau are going to maim our damn-fool host.” I reached under the seat and got the fake detective badge. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, pp. 44–45, 1969
- by extension, a police officer US
- It was pretty obvious that the buttons in the prowl car were about ready to drop the hook on him, so I went over there fast and took hold of his arm. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 6, 1953
- a person who acts as lookout US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 40, 1992
- in organised crime, a person who kills on the orders from above US, 1966
Sometimes expanded as “button man” or “button guy”. - Two apartments were set up in the city and furnished with mattresses for the button men to sleep on. — Mario Puzo, The Godfather, p. 253, 1969
- All they saw were the openings because the Big Board had called in the button men from Sal Roma’s territory[.] — Mickey Spillane, Last Cop Out, p. 98, 1972
- Pete says to this button-guy with him — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 23, 1975
- The FBI file on Reilly’s desk read him as a middle-echelon button. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 35, 1977
- Vincent was arrested twice; and his three capi and about two hundred of his button men, as if they were moving through a revolving turnstile. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Honor, p. 233, 1982
- The buttons had driven over from Las Vegas where they worked as freelance muscle. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 251, 1997
- a small quantity of an item to be smuggled US
- — American Speech, p. 97, May 1956: “Smugglers’ argot in the southwest”
- the edible, psychoactive portion of a peyote cactus US
- Peyote is a small cactus and only the top part that appears above the ground is eaten. This is called a button. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 122, 1953
- opium UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 32, 1996
- a tablet of Mandrax, a branded tranquillizer SOUTH AFRICA
- the clitoris UK, 1900
- [T]hose who felt that the ladies should have big bursts but could have them only in that highly localized surface nodule known in the trade as the vestigal phallus, or button, or boy in the boat. — Bernard Wolfe, The Magic of Their Singing, p. 93, 1961
- — Dale Gordon, The Dominion Sex Dictionary, p. 36, 1967
- — Robert A. Wilson, Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words, p. 58, 1972
- — Maledicta, p. 131, Summer/Winter 1982: “Dyke diction: the language of lesbians”
- the chin US, 1920
Boxing jargon, usually in the phrase “on the button”, describing a blow right on the chin. - — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 11, 1972
- “I hit him right on the button. They used to stay down when I hit ’em like that.” — William Kennedy, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, p. 194, 1983
- [H]is chin was exposed and presented to me on a plate. BOOF! I whacked him smack on the button. I fucking lifted him. — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 246, 1999
- in poker, a marker on the table that signifies the dealer; the dealer UK
- “Paul is the button.” The button acts last and is the most desirable seat[.] — Dave Scharf, Winning at Poker, p. 233, 2003
- a Chrysler car equipped with push-button automatic transmission US
- — Lyle K. Engel, The Complete Book of Fuel and Gas Dragsters, p. 150, 1968
- in the television industry, a dramatic or funny climax to a scene US
- — Ralph S. Singleton, Filmaker’s Dictionary, p. 24, 1990
▶ haven’t a button
to have no money IRELAND- Sure I haven’t got a button Stapler[.] — Billy Roche, The Wexford Trilogy (A Handful of Stars), p. 8, 1992
▶ on the button
exactly; precisely US, 1903
Possibly from boxing jargon, “on the BUTTONI shot him right in the forehead [...] I thought–Wow! Right on the fucking button. — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 273, 1999 |