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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
    also buttoned-down but′toned-down′

noun

a shirt with a button-down collar

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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