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button-down Definition

☆ button-down (-do̵un′)

adjective

  1. designating a collar, as on a shirt, having points fastened by small buttons to the front of the garment
  2. conservative, conventional, etc. a button-down mind

noun

a shirt with a button-down collar

button-down Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • shirt: Brown also raids her husband's closet for big button-down shirts to wear with leggings or pregnancy jeans.
  • collar: The lads in their button-down collars and leather caps are all would-be Beatles or embryo Donovans.