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button-down

Speech parts

1. button-down - Noun

2. button-down - Adjective

3. button-down - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

unimaginatively conventional

Source: WordNet

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button down

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Examples

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes. J. Anthony Lukas

When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal. Robert Hass

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts. Bobby Fischer

Brooks Brothers button-down shirts Source: Internet

a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business Source: Internet

A few are regulars, like the middle-aged man in an olive suit and yellow button-down who comes in every few days in hopes of padding his Beatles collection and a younger guy who’s on a never-ending quest for acid-jazz CDs. Source: Internet

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