button-down

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adj 3noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

clerical, many, pink, pressed, stylish, white

VERB + BUTTON-DOWN

wore

BUTTON-DOWN + NOUN

collar, pinstripes, shirt

PREP.

from, with, with

Definitions

adj

Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.

Serious; staid; businesslike.

Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.

noun

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.

A button-up shirt

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — unimaginatively conventional

buttoned-down
conservative

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

A collar may come in many varieties, from button-down to clerical, and Mandarin to Masonic, but it is never a lapel.

Tatoeba · #4476653

Business casual means you can wear khaki trousers with a button-down shirt, but not shorts with a T-shirt.

Tatoeba · #4476829

Tom wore a button-down shirt.

Tatoeba · #5670668

He wore a pressed button-down collar shirt and black pants.

Tatoeba · #6759718

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, button-down is marked as idiomatic, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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