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button-down en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
2. (idiomatic) Serious; staid; businesslike.
3. (idiomatic) Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
buttoned-down		alternative	lexicographic

button-down en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A shirt with a button-down collar.
   • Wearing a stylish pink button-down with white pinstripes, Ozzie Guillen beamed about feeling like he had "come home" when he was presented Wednesday as the manager of the Miami Marlins. 2011, Dan McNeil, “Doesn't take long for Guillen to be irrelevant in Chicago”, in Chicago Tribune:
2. (colloquial) A button-up shirt.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
buttoned-down		alternative	lexicographic
button-downs	Number=Plur		lexicographic