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button up verb to close completely US, 1941- Instead, his comrades killed the North Korean who shot him, and with that the rest of the tanks shot the pass, roaring down the road fully buttoned up and firing wildly as they went. — Robert Leckie, The Wars of America, Volume II, p. 340, 1968
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 7, 1968
- Also, he never learned to button up when he gets him, so if you two can get a good shot at him once, you can hurt him. — M*A*S*H, 1970
- The crew then “buttons up”–closes the blast doors and switches to emergency air and power. — Peter Pringle and William Arkin, S.I.O.P., p. 166, 1983
- But for now, why not put everyone on full security alert and have NIS button up your house. — Richard Marcinko and John Weisman, Rogue Warrior, p. 306, 1992
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