v. - to push buttons
1. To deliberately irritate
2. To intentionally provoke another without reason
3. To wear away at the patience of someone until that person wants to
slap you
4. To capitalize on the emotional vulnerabilities of another
example: "Don't worry, chocolate doesn't make you fat," Mike said to
his slender but weight-conscious girlfriend.
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Pushing the emotion "buttons" on someone, most commonly anger/grief.
It implies that the pusher knows where the other person's buttons are, meaning, how to get at him. So button pushing is usually done after someone exposed himself as being passionate or angry about something in a situation, or the person is known well by the pusher.
"he's just pushing your buttons"
"she's just pushing buttons"
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Getting dressed up. Putting on you finest apparel.
We are pushing buttons on Saturday night for a night on the town
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A humorous meme that began with a photo of an electric hand drier with the pictures describing how to use the machine. (One presses the button to begin the airflow) The images looked like they described "Push button to receive bacon"
*Guy looks at hand drier* "Ooh! Look! Push button, Recieve Bacon !"
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The act of doing a dull, repetitious job of seemingly little importance; often by being the human component in a technological or mechanical process.
All I did at work today was push the button.
I'm doing the same thing I do every night, honey: pushing the button.
If I don't push the button every 108 minutes the world will end, or whatever.
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To have sex with a fan of the TV show LOST.
"Hey, how about you and I go down the hatch and "Push the button"...every 108 minutes?"
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