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button-downs

button-downs is the plural of button-down.

Meaning of button-down

Noun

button-down (plural button-downs)

  1. A shirt with a button-down collar.
    • Wearing a stylish pink button-down with white pinstripes, Ozzie Guillen beamed about feeling like he had "come home" when he was presented Wednesday as the manager of the Miami Marlins.2011, Dan McNeil, “Doesn't take long for Guillen to be irrelevant in Chicago”, in Chicago Tribune
  2. (colloquial) A button-up shirt.

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Questions about button-downs

What is button-downs the plural of?
Button-downs is the plural of button-down.

Words near button-downs in the dictionary

  1. button wrinklewort
  2. button wrinkleworts
  3. button-basher
  4. button-bashers
  5. button-down
  6. button-downs
  7. button-fish
  8. button-fishes
  9. button-hole
  10. button-holes
  11. button-masher

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