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collar button

collar button noun: a button for fastening a collar.

collar button: a button for fastening a collar
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Noun

collar button (plural collar buttons)

  1. A button for fastening a collar.
    • Take a tip—Flat collar buttons don’t roll under the bed nor stick out like a wart on the back of your neck—Thomas & Messing 10c.[192-?], Zim [Eugene Zimmerman], In Dairyland: And Foolish History of Horseheads, N.Y., →OCLC, page 77
    • “I got that dimple from sleeping with my face on a collar button,” coldly explained the dentistress.1930 October 4, Joseph Faus, ““Oh, Miss Dentist!”: Being the ridiculous romance of Oliver Whidden, insurance salesman, who found his love in the cavity of a bad tooth”, in Wisconsin Rapids Daily...

Forms of collar button

pluralcollar buttons
alternative formcollar-button
alternative formcollarbutton

Words formed from collar button

Questions about collar button

What does collar button mean?
Collar button means a button for fastening a collar.
What part of speech is collar button?
Collar button is a noun.
What is the plural of collar button?
The plural of collar button is collar buttons.

Words near collar button in the dictionary

  1. collar beams
  2. collar bomb
  3. collar bombs
  4. collar bone
  5. collar bones
  6. collar button
  7. collar buttons
  8. collar counties
  9. collar county
  10. collar of esses
  11. collar stud

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