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blue buttons

blue buttons is the plural of blue button.

Meaning of blue button

Noun

blue button (plural blue buttons)

  1. A colony of hydrozoan polyps of the species Porpita porpita
  2. (UK, historical) An unauthorized clerk in the stock exchange.
    • Unauthorized clerks or Blue Buttons can make enquiries in the House and ask for prices but may not enter into any contract, while Red Buttons are clerks entitled to work in the Settling or checking Room.1954, Margaret Shelly Rix, Stock Market Economics, page 17

Questions about blue buttons

What is blue buttons the plural of?
Blue buttons is the plural of blue button.

Words near blue buttons in the dictionary

  1. blue bull
  2. blue bulls
  3. blue bunchgrass
  4. blue butter
  5. blue button
  6. blue buttons
  7. blue carbon
  8. blue card
  9. blue cards
  10. blue cat
  11. blue catfish

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