low profile

noun

a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.

Also, low posture.

Origin

1970-75

Related forms

low-profile, adjective

Examples from the web for low profile

Garrison is expected to maintain a low profile during what is the highlight of the university's academic year.
The low profile tires hold less air and thus need checking and refilling more often.
With its low profile, however, this unit takes a backseat to the typical exercise bike as a practical place to drip-dry clothes.
It also ignores the basics of any perpetrator keep a low profile, and opt for the simplest technique.
Errors will be huge for such a low profile in skeleton.
Of course, in a era of high unemployment and economic distemper, keeping a low profile makes political sense.
Wolverine is a medium-sized toy manufacturer with a low profile.
All the same, since the war the rich kept a prudently low profile.
Maintaining a low profile is the best way stay off out of harm's way.
From that point on he was forced to keep a low profile.

British Dictionary definitions for low profile

noun

a position or attitude characterized by a deliberate avoidance of prominence or publicity
(as modifier): a low-profile approach

adjective

(of a tyre) wide in relation to its height

Slang definitions & phrases for low profile

adjective

: a low-profile discreetness

noun phrase

Inconspicuousness; recessiveness; modesty: He thought he'd do better with a low profile the first year or so (1960s+)

Related Terms

keep a low profile

Idioms and Phrases with low profile