button-down (adj.)

  1. unimaginatively conventional; a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business- Newsweek

    [ Syn: buttoned-down , conservative ]

  2. of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons; Brooks Brothers button-down shirts'

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