button-down

adj, noun — 5 senses

button-down

adj
1

Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.

2

Idiomatic Serious; staid; businesslike.

3

Idiomatic Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.

button-down

noun
1

A shirt with a button-down collar

  • 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, Dan McNeil, “Doesn't take long for Guillen to be irrelevant in Chicago”, in Chicago Tribune:
2

Colloquial A button-up shirt

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