Buttons vs Batons - What's the difference?
buttons | batons |
(colloquial, dated) A boy servant, or page.
(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.’
(button)
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As nouns the difference between buttons and batons
is that buttons is plural of lang=en while batons is plural of baton.As a verb buttons
is third-person singular of button.buttons
English
Noun
(head)- (Dickens)