like
I like like buttons.
The sentence states that the speaker enjoys clicking 'like' buttons on social media.
Meanings (pronounced /laɪk/)
to find pleasing or agreeable; to enjoy
- I like coffee in the morning.
- Most people like a good story.
a positive endorsement of digital content, typically registered by clicking a button on social media
- The post got over a thousand likes.
- She craved the dopamine of likes.
Word origin
Both senses come from Old English līcian ('to please'), from Proto-Germanic *līkāną. The original meaning was the opposite of modern: 'it likes me' meant 'it pleases me' — speakers gradually flipped to 'I like it' meaning the same thing. The 'like' button noun is a 21st-century coinage from social media platforms (Facebook introduced the Like button in 2009).
Fun fact
Until the 21st century, 'like' was almost never used as a noun in English. Social media single-handedly created a new noun out of the centuries-old verb — the 'like' button (introduced by Facebook in 2009) added a count noun to the dictionary. Now we say 'I got 200 likes' the way our grandparents would have said 'I got 200 letters.'