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buttonhole

 
/ˈbʌt·ənˌhoʊl/ v [T] (MAKE SOMEONE LISTEN)

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› to stop someone and make the person listen to you: They took out newspaper ads and buttonholed politicians to lobby for the change.
(Definition of buttonhole v (MAKE SOMEONE LISTEN) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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