Usually means: Slit for inserting a button.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. buttonhole: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. buttonhole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buttonhole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buttonhole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buttonhole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buttonhole, buttonhole: Wordnik
  7. buttonhole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. buttonhole: Wiktionary
  9. buttonhole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buttonhole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buttonhole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Buttonhole, buttonhole: Dictionary.com
  13. buttonhole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Buttonhole (disambiguation), Buttonhole (knitting), Buttonhole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Buttonhole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. buttonhole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. buttonhole: Rhymezone
  18. Buttonhole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. buttonhole: Free Dictionary
  20. buttonhole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. buttonhole: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. buttonhole: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. buttonhole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. buttonhole: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buttonhole: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See buttonholed as well.)

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noun:  A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
noun:  (chiefly British) A flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
noun:  (attributive) So shaped that it can be worn on a buttonhole or it is similar to a buttonhole.
noun:  (surgery) A small slot-like cut or incision, made for example by an accident with the scalpel.
noun:  The mouth, nose or eyes of a tiny appearance.
noun:  (obsolete) vagina, coin slot.
noun:  (lightly vulgar) The butthole (anus).
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To cut one or more buttonholes (in).
verb:  (transitive) To sew by buttonhole stitch.
verb:  (transitive, surgery, chiefly archaic) To make a small slot-like incision in (intentionally or unintentionally).
verb:  (transitive, rare) To apply a flowery formation in.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic, rare) To attain buttonhole-like formations on cutting.

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