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button-down
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but·ton-down (btn-doun)
adj.
1. Having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons: a button-down shirt.
2. also but·toned-down (btnd-) Conservative, conventional, or unimaginative: "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business" (Newsweek).
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button-down
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Adj.1.button-down - unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
buttoned-down, conservative
conventional - unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
2.button-down - of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons; "Brooks Brothers button-down shirts"
buttoned, fastened - furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike


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