Definitions for button-down

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Spelling: [buht-n-doun]

IPA: /ˈbʌt nˌdaʊn/

Button-Down is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in button-down (-bdnnoottuw).

Definitions for button-down

adjective

1. (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
2. (of a shirt) having a button-down collar.
3. (of a shirt) having buttons down the front from the collar to the bottom.
4. Also, buttoned-down. (especially of attitudes, opinions, etc.) extremely conventional; unimaginative.

Origin of button-down

An Americanism dating back to 1930-35

Examples for button-down

They are neither formal nor distant, the button-down shirts open at the collar signaling vulnerability rather than posturing.

She often dressed casually in button-down shirts, sweaters, and skinny jeans.

Mitt will give a pitch-perfect, button-down speech accepting the GOP nomination Thursday night.

Cain, who is 65, is balding and bespectacled; he was wearing a white sweater vest and a button-down shirt.