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Button-down

adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
  2. 2
    Serious; staid; businesslike. idiomatic
  3. 3
    Conservative; conventional; unimaginative. idiomatic
Adjective
  1. 1
    of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons wordnet
  2. 2
    unimaginatively conventional wordnet
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A button-up shirt colloquial

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