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English term or phrase:
protest button
English answer:
small badge bearing a slogan, usually political
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Noha Mostafa
Mar 7, 2010 08:03
14 yrs ago
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English term
protest button
English
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Literary
He sat amid piles of old newspapers, protest buttons, pamphlets he intended to distribute.
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Mar 8, 2010 09:08: Noha Mostafa changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/776773">Noha Mostafa's</a> old entry - "protest button"" to ""small badge bearing a slogan, usually political""
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small badge bearing a slogan, usually political
Not a "Button" in the sense of something fitting in a buttonhole to hold a garment together, though it may be made to fit in a lapel buttonhole. But most of them now are in the form of small pin-on badges usually worn on the chest. I have one saying "Nej til EU" (No to the EU) which I bought in Norway. You can't buy buttons protesting against the EU in the UK, probably because of some EU regulation!
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button bearing a political statement
e.g. "Dick Nixon before he Dick's you"
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campaign/demonstration badge
button in this context means 'badge' like a lapel badge or pin-on badge, so this person has lots of badges from demonstrations or campaigns - causes he supports or believes in.
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"a badge or emblem bearing a name, slogan, identifying figure, etc., for wear on the lapel, dress, etc.: campaign buttons".
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/button
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"a badge or emblem bearing a name, slogan, identifying figure, etc., for wear on the lapel, dress, etc.: campaign buttons".
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/button
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