(ambitransitive) To conclude; to finalize; to put the finishing touches (on).
It's time to button up the meeting.
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(intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.
Button up well. It's freezing outside today.
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(transitive) To fasten with a button or buttons.
Button up your shirt cuff. It has come undone.
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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