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button man
noun
A contract killer; a professional assassin.
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This gave him title for his novel, "The Button Man".
Jack Ratusch knew something was amiss when he ran into his friend the button man, prowling Midtown with a real estate agent.
By the time he pulls up in New Orleans (an apt destination for someone who fears he's "never going to feel secure again"), the badly rattled button man is ready to retire from the game.
Back on his native soil, Peer learns the ultimate lesson from Cliff Burnett's haunting Dylanesque Button Man, who doubles as musician and philosopher, that "to be oneself you must sacrifice yourself".
The Red Button Man... doing his thing.
"I Touch A Red Button Man," was his name.
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Tomorrow, Mr. Dewan will drive to a factory in Kingston, 40 miles away, in a car with four other former button men.
Oz needs Jimmy to help recover Cynthia, whom Lazlo has kidnapped to bring Jimmy out of hiding; she has been abducted by Lazlo's phalanx of button men, who treat her almost as well as Oz.
Every mob opera from The Godfather onwards has been about family, but Gomorrah places as much emphasis on the "soldiers", the paunchy, longer-in-the-tooth button men whose loyal service keeps them alive, and yet whose authority is for ever threatened by the next scooter-riding, nightclubbing generation.
He told me about "button men" and kisses of death and Joe the Barber's 1957 meeting in Apalachin, New York, at which Peter DeFeo got made.
"Des is more the knobs, levers and buttons man," she says.
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