button-down
See also: buttondown
English
A shirt with a button-down collar.
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Adjective
- Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
- (idiomatic) Serious; staid; businesslike.
- (idiomatic) Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.
Noun
button-down (plural button-downs)
- A shirt with a button-down collar
- 2011, Doesn't take long for Guillen to be irrelevant in Chicago, by Dan McNeil 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.
- 2011, Doesn't take long for Guillen to be irrelevant in Chicago, by Dan McNeil in Chicago Tribune
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