button-down

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

Adjective

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

Forms

buttoned-down

Noun

  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...
  2. A button-up shirt

Forms

button-downs buttoned-down