Button
Snap
Snap noun - A loud explosive sound.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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It's not a Reset Button or Snap Back: while those revert the continuity to a previous state, a Continuity Reboot starts over, providing the authors with a new clean slate to work on.
Source: Continuity Reboot - The Mighty Boosh is hardly the type of show you'd expect to find continuity in anyway but it has a surprising combination of both Reset Button and Snap Back plots.
Source: Negative Continuity - They can also become a Static Character trapped in amber with repeat uses of a Reset Button or Snap Back, negating what little growth they manage; and they may mutate into another sort of Flat Character with Flanderization.
Source: Flat Character
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Snap and Button. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/button/snap
Button & Snap. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/button/snap>.
Snap or Button. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/button/snap.
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