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View definitions for button up

button up

verb as in batten down the hatches

verb as in button one's lip

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Example Sentences

He wore simple khaki pants and a light blue button-up shirt—no leather skirts.

He tans, moisturizes, exfoliates, and buffs, and then gels his hair back, with a crisp white button-up.

She wears black ballet flats, cigarette-cut jeans, a sheer white button-up top and her trademark siren-red lipstick.

At this moment she is striving in vain to button up one of Chubby's gloves.

The doctor and the examining magistrate got into the sledge, and the white coachman bent over them to button up the cover.

So saying, she began to button up Waldron's jacket in front, giving it a pull this way and that to make it set better.

Mr. Shaw picked up his stick, his gloves, and his newspaper, and began slowly to button up his coat.

Four old men we appointed to be courtiers, and made them button up their coats.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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