button-down ['bʌtәndaun]
adj.
<美>领尖钉有钮扣的,守旧的,温文尔雅的
button-down[ adj ]- unimaginatively conventional
<adj.all>
a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business
- of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons
<adj.all>
Brooks Brothers button-down shirts
buttoned \buttoned\ adj.
furnished with buttons or something buttonlike. Opposite of
{unbuttoned}. [Narrower terms: {botonee, botonnee};
{button-down}; {closed}]
[WordNet 1.5]
- Here the "Suits," button-down executives from MCA's "Black Tower" headquarters building, often meet in pitched battle with sweaters-and-jeans-clad producers and writers who work in bungalows scattered below.