"blue button" meaning in All languages combined

See blue button on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: blue buttons [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blue button (plural blue buttons)
  1. A colony of hydrozoan polyps of the species Porpita porpita
    Sense id: en-blue_button-en-noun-MiFfsXdC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9
  2. (UK, finance, historical) An unauthorized clerk in the stock exchange. Tags: UK, historical Categories (topical): Finance
    Sense id: en-blue_button-en-noun-YUNfgoLx Categories (other): British English Topics: business, finance
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: blue-button

Inflected forms

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