buttons

noun6

1. •
   (informal) A remote control.
2. •
   (informal) Synonym of marbles (“sanity; mental faculties”).

   • 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. — 2004
3. •
   (slang) A policeman.

   • ‘Go ahead, call the buttons. You'll get a big reaction from it.’ — 1939
4. •
   (informal, old-fashioned) A boy servant, or page.

   • 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[…]" — 1860
5. •
   The dung of sheep.
6. •
   A small South African plant of the genus Conophytum, with button-like succulent leaves covering its exterior.