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A childproof actuator cap for a hand-held aerosol dispenser having a container with a top closure member and a valve assemblage carried therein. The cap comprises a cap body having an annular, depending skirt which engages and is supported by the rim of the top closure member. The cap body movably carries a depress button having a hollow, depending boss engageable with the valve to actuate the same. The skirt has diametrically opposed, aligned holes which slidably carry a movable plunger constituting an abutment for the boss on the depress button. A finger-piece is connected with the plunger and is exposed at the rear of the cap, to enable engagement by the same finger which is employed to actuate the depress button. The plunger is movable between a locking position wherein it interferes with the boss on the depress button and prevents depressing movement thereof and actuation of the valve, and an unlocked position wherein a clearance hole in the plunger is aligned with the boss to receive and provide clearance for the latter when the button is depressed. The arrangement is such that the same finger which is employed to depress the button is first used to actuate the plunger and unlock the dispenser, whereby an especially convenient and simple, one-finger unlocking and dispensing operation is realized.