button-down
Appearance
See also: buttondown
English
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Adjective
[edit]- Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
- (idiomatic) Serious; staid; businesslike.
- (idiomatic) Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.
Noun
[edit]button-down (plural button-downs)
- A shirt with a button-down collar
- 2011, Dan McNeil, “Doesn't take long for Guillen to be irrelevant in Chicago”, in Chicago Tribune:
- Wearing a stylish pink button-down with white pinstripes, Ozzie Guillen beamed about feeling like he had "come home" when he was presented Wednesday as the manager of the Miami Marlins.