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BUTTON-DOWN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons
Example:
Brooks Brothers button-down shirts
Classified under:
Similar:
buttoned; fastened (furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unimaginatively conventional
Example:
a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business
Synonyms:
button-down; buttoned-down; conservative
Classified under:
Similar:
conventional (unimaginative and conformist)
