button-down

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See also: buttondown

English

A shirt with a button-down collar.

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Adjective

button-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-down (plural button-downs)

  1. A shirt with a button-down collar