button-down — English Dictionary

Adjective

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

2. Serious; staid; businesslike.

   Usage

   • idiomatic

3. Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.

   Usage

   • idiomatic

Noun

1. A shirt with a button-down collar.

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

2. A button-up shirt.

   Usage

   • Colloquial

Adjective

1. unimaginatively conventional

   Synonyms

   buttoned-downconservative

2. of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons

   Examples

   Brooks Brothers button-down shirts