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button-down

[buht-n-doun] / ˈbʌt nˌdaʊn /


button down




VERB
finish, close; surpass
Synonyms


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Restaurants hummed with more than half of their tables full, many taken up by people in the San Francisco work uniform: a button-down shirt and a puffer vest.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hundreds of eighth-graders in freshly ironed button-down shirts and flowing dresses filed into Andrew Carnegie Middle School with their families Tuesday morning in high spirits.

From Los Angeles Times

Dressed casually in a plaid gray button-down shirt and beige pants, he drinks iced tea at a back-corner booth at Swingers Diner in West Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times

Lynch was wearing his uniform of the period — worn khakis, white button-down shirt, black blazer.

From Los Angeles Times

Jimmy Carter wore a button-down shirt in Khartoum.

From Los Angeles Times