buttons

1. (colloquial) A remote control.colloquial

2. (colloquial, dated) A boy servant, or page.Examples: "A Custum' Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons, "said the Jack , repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt , “when they comes betwixt him and his own light[…]""colloquialdated

3. (slang) A policeman.Examples: "‘Go ahead, call the buttons. You'll get a big reaction from it.’"slang

4. (colloquial) Synonym of marbles (“sanity; mental faculties”).Examples: "And we've got that other boy now, Ganesh something, I met him once, and I didn't understand a word he was saying, but the child seems to have all his buttons."; "That night in his room before he'd left for New Orleans, Lewis had behaved like he didn't have all his buttons."; "In the quaint vernacular of old Dad Peppin, Zion Jore might not have all his buttons, but he had more of what he did have than most men—more imagination to conceive a plot, more daring to carry it out, no fear to hamper him, […]"Synonyms: marblescolloquial