Button-down

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  buttoned \buttoned\ adj.
     furnished with buttons or something buttonlike. Opposite of
     {unbuttoned}. [Narrower terms: {botonee, botonnee};
     {button-down}; {closed}]
     [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  button-down
       adj 1: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the
              buttoned-down, dull-gray 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"