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button up
verb
- to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
- informal.to conclude (business) satisfactorily
- buttoned up slang.taciturn; silent and somewhat tense
Example Sentences
“He knows how to walk a deal through step by step to make sure that everything is complete and buttoned up,” Buss said, “and that’s exactly what happened.”
While being escorted into the ceremony in the Capitol, eyes hidden behind her hat and coat buttoned up, she was a dead-ringer for H.G.
It was all about the cool dark shirt, the leather jacket, the black suit button up… I asked myself “how am I gonna be different here and also comfortable?”
“I feel like the women in her work were always messy and more complex and they were quite flawed or as buttoned up as the rom-com heroines of Hollywood’s golden age,” Kaplan says.
“You don’t get to be Diddy... unless the people around you were buttoned up. There was nobody around him sloppy.”
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