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      [Noun]  | "push button" 


      1: a small button or knob that when pushed operates something especially by closing an electric circuit


      Origin: circa 1874 ;

      [Idiom]  | "push one's buttons" 


      1: to do or say something just to make someone angry or upset

      [Idiom]  | "push the right buttons" 


      1: to do the things that are needed to produce a desired effect or result

      [Noun]  | "push buttons" 


      1: as in buttons, switches;


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       [ "pushing buttons" ]

      1: Pushing the emotion "buttons" on someone, most commonly anger/grief. It implies that the pusher knows where the other person's buttons are, meaning, how to get at him. So button pushing is usually done after someone exposed himself as being passionate or angry about something in a situation, or the person is known well by the pusher.

        * e.g.,  ... "he's just pushing your buttons" "she's just pushing buttons" 

       [ "Push buttons" ]

      1: v. - to push buttons

        * e.g.,  ... example: "Don't worry, chocolate doesn't make you fat," Mike said to  


       [ "Push buttons" ]

      2:  To deliberately irritate

        * e.g.,  ... his slender but weight-conscious girlfriend. 


       [ "Push buttons" ]

      3:  To intentionally provoke another without reason


       [ "Push buttons" ]

      4:  To wear away at the patience of someone until that person wants to


       [ "Push buttons" ]

      5: slap you


       [ "Push buttons" ]

      6:  To capitalize on the emotional vulnerabilities of another

       [ "Pushing Buttons" ]

      1: Getting dressed up. Putting on you finest apparel.

        * e.g.,  ... We are pushing buttons on Saturday night for a night on the town 

       [ "Push button, Recieve Bacon" ]

      1: A humorous meme that began with a photo of an electric hand drier with the pictures describing how to use the machine. (One presses the button to begin the airflow) The images looked like they described "Push button to receive bacon"

        * e.g.,  ... *Guy looks at hand drier* "Ooh! Look! Push button, Recieve Bacon !" 

       [ "push the button" ]

      1: US slang for clitoral massage

        * e.g.,  ... He really knew how to "push the button" 

       [ "push the button" ]

      1: The act of doing a dull, repetitious job of seemingly little importance; often by being the human component in a technological or mechanical process.

        * e.g.,  ... All I did at work today was push the button. I'm doing the same thing I do every night, honey: pushing the button. If I don't push the button every 108 minutes the world will end, or whatever. 

       [ "Push the Button" ]

      1: To have sex with a fan of the TV show LOST.

        * e.g.,  ... "Hey, how about you and I go down the hatch and "Push the button"...every 108 minutes?" 

       [ "push the button" ]

      1:  To unload on or completely obliterate an adversary or enemy. A reference to the President launching a nuclear strike. A female rubbing one out or getting one rubbed out

        * e.g.,  ... Mayweather fights in a style that doesn't let his opponents push the button. 

       [ "push the button" ]

      1: Telling someone to shut up, or to completly change the subject that the target has no idea what to say.

        * e.g.,  ... (hey have you seen the news lately?) "Push the button"! What? You heard me. Okay? 

       [ "push the button" ]

      1: To make oneself throw up by putting a finger down ones throat. Possibly after a heavy drinking session.

        * e.g.,  ... I've drunk too much, I'm going to have to push the button down the toilet or I won't get to sleep. 

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