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buttons one's lip

buttons one's lip is the third-person singular simple present indicative of button one's lip.

Meaning of button one's lip

Verb

button one's lip (third-person singular simple present buttons one's lip, present participle buttoning one's lip, simple past and past participle buttoned one's lip)

  1. (idiomatic) To remain silent, especially in order to keep a secret or to avoid saying something inappropriate.
    • "Yes," put in Solomon. "I've been tipped off to this guy Mars, and you'd better tell him to button up his lip and not start anything."1910, Jim Nasium, "The Baseball League on the Styx," The Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 15 May, p. 2 (retrieved 19 July 2010)

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Buttons one's lip is the third-person singular simple present indicative of button one's lip.

Words near buttons one's lip in the dictionary

  1. buttonpresses
  2. buttonpusher
  3. buttonquail
  4. buttonquails
  5. buttons
  6. buttons one's lip
  7. buttons through
  8. buttons up
  9. buttons up one's lip
  10. buttonweed
  11. buttonweeds

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