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button-down

adjective buttoned-down

  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.

noun button-downs · buttoned-down

  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.
  2. colloquial A button-up shirt.

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@misc{button_down_2026,
  title = {button-down},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/button-down},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}