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push-button

3 ENTRIES FOUND:

push–button

adj

Definition of PUSH-BUTTON

1
: operated or done by means of push buttons <a push–button phone>
2
: using or dependent on complex and more or less self-operating mechanisms that are put in operation by a simple act comparable to pushing a button <push–button warfare>

First Known Use of PUSH-BUTTON

1916

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