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button up

Variant of button

noun

  1. any small disk, knob, etc. used as a fastening or ornament, as one put through a buttonhole on a garment
  2. anything small and shaped like a button; specif.,
    1. a small emblem of membership, distinction, etc., generally worn in the lapel
    2. a small knoblike part, as a bud on a plant or the end of a rattlesnake's rattles
    3. a small knoblike part that is pushed or turned to operate a doorbell, electric lamp, etc.
    4. a guard on the tip of a fencing foil
    5. a small, immature mushroom
  3. Slang the point of the chin

transitive verb, intransitive verb

  1. to fasten with or as with a button or buttons
  2. to provide or be provided with a button or buttons

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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