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button down

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but⋅ton-down

[buht-n-doun]
–adjective
1. (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
2. (of a shirt) having a button-down collar.
3. (esp. of attitudes, opinions, etc.) extremely conventional; unimaginative.
Also, buttoned-down.


Origin:
1930–35, Americanism
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