Buttons

Noun

plural

1. Plural of button
2. (colloquial, dated) A boy servant, or page.
3. (slang) A policeman.
• 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 78:‘Go ahead, call the buttons. You'll get a big reaction from it.’

Verb

1. buttons

   (third-person singular of button)