collar button

plural collar buttons · alternative collar-button · alternative collarbutton

1. A button for fastening a collar.

   “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 Tribune, seventeenth year, number 5286, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., page six, columns 3–4

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   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

   There are sporty ones with tracksuits, straight backs and gelled hair; slumping city types fresh from work with their collar buttons undone; solitary, lumpy, middle-aged guys; and an original hippy with orange trousers and a hat that is unnecessarily tall.

   2013, Will Storr, The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science, Picador, →ISBN, page 67