'buttoned-down' definitions:
Definition of 'buttoned-down'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek [syn: button-down, buttoned-down, conservative]
Definition of 'buttoned-down'
From: GCIDE
- buttoned-down \buttoned-down\ adj. conservatively formal and businesslike in dress and manner.
- Syn: button-down, conservative. [WordNet 1.5]
- a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business. --Newsweek