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button-down in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons
    "Brooks Brothers button-down shirts"
    button-down 
  2. unimaginatively conventional
    "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
    button-down  buttoned-down  conservative 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


button-down in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (adjective) Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
  2. (adjective) (idiom) Serious; staid; businesslike.
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