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smart casual

or smart-casual

adjective

(of clothing) neat or professional-looking but fairly casual: The dress code for the event will be smart casual.

noun

smart casual clothing or style.

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Words nearby smart casual

smart aleck, smart as a whip, smart ass, smart bomb, smart card, smart casual, smart drink, smart drug, smart dust, smart mob, smart money

Origin of smart casual

First recorded in 1920–25
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019