Definition of push (one's) buttons

push (one's) buttons

verb

• to aggravate.

  She knows how to push all his buttons.

                                                 
  
                                                   
  
  Citation from "Wedding", New Girl (TV), Season 1 Episode 3 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Oct 14 2011. Submitted by Patrick B. from River Ridge, LA, USA on Nov 27 1999.

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Other terms relating to 'button':
buttoned-down	Definitions include: overly formal, conservative.
buttoned-up	Definitions include: overly formal, conservative.
button it	Definitions include: to stop talking.
button masher	Definitions include: a videogame that requires mashing buttons to play, rather than finesse.
button (one's) lip	Definitions include: to stop talking.
buttons	Definitions include: The rims on a car.
Other terms relating to 'push':
cushion for the pushing	Definitions include: fat.
KOP	Definitions include: Keep On Pushin, Killa On Payroll, Killas On Payroll, Killer On Payroll, Killer On The Payroll, Killas On The Payroll
pencil pusher	Definitions include: a person whose job consists of shuffling pieces of paper.
push a hack	Definitions include: to drive a taxicab as an occupation.
push around	Definitions include: to bully.
push brown	Definitions include: to defecate.
push daisies	Definitions include: to be dead.
pusher	Definitions include: one who sells illegal drugs
push mud	Definitions include: to take a dump.
push off	Definitions include: to do illegal drugs, especially heroin.
push (one's) wig back	Definitions include: imagine an imaginary hair piece that everyone wears which is sensitive to shock.
push out a grumpy	Definitions include: to defecate.
push rope	Definitions include: as a male, to attempt to have sex with a less-than-fully-erect penis.
push sh*t uphill	Definitions include: a hypothetical difficult task.
push skin	Definitions include: masturbating (female).
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