press button

English

Noun

press button (plural press buttons)

1. Synonym of push-button
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (slang, Australia, New Zealand) A Presbyterian.

   Synonym: Pressie

   • 2014, Jenn J. McLeod, Simmering Season, 2nd edition, Wild Myrtle Press, published 2020, →ISBN, page unknown:

     Sadly, around the late seventies when the Press Buttons and Methos—as her dad had called the Presbyterian and Methodist churches—amalgamated to become the Uniting Church, Maggie’s mum died.

Further reading

• “Press button n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present