subs. phr. (common).—1. A shirt collar; spec. one the same height ALL ROUND the neck, meeting in front, or (as in clerical collars) at the back.
1857. A. TROLLOPE, The Three Clerks, xxii. He had bestowed … the greatest amount of personal attention on his collar…. Some people may think that an ALL-ROUNDER is an ALL-ROUNDER, and that if one is careful to get an ALL-ROUNDER one has done all that is necessary. But so thought not Macassar Jones.
1860. All the Year Round, 42. 369. That particularly demonstrative type … known as the ALL ROUNDER.
1865. STRANGFORD, Selection (1869), II. 163. Dressed in full uniform with high stand-up collar—the modern ALL-ROUNDER not having got so far into Asia.
1875. Chambers’s Journal, No. 586. To present himself in an ALL ROUNDER hat and coat of formal cut on Sunday.
2. See ALL-ROUND.
