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cough buttons

cough buttons is the plural of cough button.

Meaning of cough button

Noun

cough button (plural cough buttons)

  1. A button that temporarily stops the recording and transmission of a radio show.
    • Mucho pressed his cough button a moment, but only smiled. It seemed odd. How could they hear a smile?1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 103

Questions about cough buttons

What is cough buttons the plural of?
Cough buttons is the plural of cough button.

Words near cough buttons in the dictionary

  1. cougarship
  2. Couged it
  3. cough
  4. cough and a spit
  5. cough button
  6. cough buttons
  7. cough candy
  8. cough down
  9. cough drop
  10. cough drops
  11. cough lollies

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