Usually means: Neat, organized, and tightly controlled.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word buttoned up:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. buttoned-up: Merriam-Webster
  2. buttoned-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buttoned up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. buttoned-up, buttoned up: Vocabulary.com
  5. buttoned-up: Wordnik
  6. buttoned-up, buttoned up: Wiktionary
  7. buttoned-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. buttoned-up, buttoned up: Dictionary.com
  9. buttoned-up: Rhymezone
  10. buttoned-up: FreeDictionary.org
  11. buttoned-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. buttoned-up, buttoned up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. buttoned up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buttoned up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buttoned up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buttoned up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buttoned up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. buttoned up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. buttoned up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Buttoned up)

adjective:  Alternative form of buttoned-up [(figurative) Conservative.]

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