Word.ws English Dictionary

buttonman

buttonman is the alternative form of button man.

Meaning of button man

Noun

button man (plural button men)

  1. (slang) A contract killer; a professional assassin.
    • I was called a "buffoon" in the paper of record, the New York Times, and the Washington Post described me fondly as "Clinton's gunsel," his button man2000, James Carville, Stickin': The Case for Loyalty, page 13

Forms of buttonman

pluralbuttonmen

Questions about buttonman

What is buttonman the alternative form of?
Buttonman is the alternative form of button man.

Words near buttonman in the dictionary

  1. buttonlock
  2. buttonlocks
  3. buttonmaker
  4. buttonmakers
  5. buttonmaking
  6. buttonman
  7. buttonmen
  8. buttonmould
  9. buttonmoulds
  10. buttonologist
  11. buttonologists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: buttonman (page history and authors); button man (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “buttonman.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/buttonman. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.