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How to pronounce “button-down”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of button-down with real speech in context.
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- Definition summary
- Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
- (idiomatic) Serious; staid; businesslike.
- (idiomatic) Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.
- [Noun]
- A shirt with a button-down collar
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