Button-down

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

buttoned-down

Adjective

adjective

Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
(idiomatic) Serious; staid; businesslike.
(idiomatic) Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.

Full definition of button-down

Noun

button-down

(plural button-downs)

A shirt with a button-down collar

2011, Doesn't take long for Guillen to be irrelevant in Chicago, by Dan McNeil in Chicago TribuneWearing 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.