shirt
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shirt/ʃɜːt/
▶noun a garment for the upper body, with a collar and sleeves and buttons down the front.
■ a similar garment of stretchable material without full fastenings, worn for sports.
– phrases
keep your shirt on informal stay calm.
lose one's shirt informal lose all one's possessions.
put one's shirt on Brit. informal bet all one has on.
the shirt off one's back informal one's last remaining possessions.
keep your shirt on informal stay calm.
lose one's shirt informal lose all one's possessions.
put one's shirt on Brit. informal bet all one has on.
the shirt off one's back informal one's last remaining possessions.
– derivatives
shirted adjective,
shirtless adjective.
shirted adjective,
shirtless adjective.
'shirt' also found in these Oxford entries:
aloha shirt
- blouse
- boiled shirt
- button-down
- Camisard
- camisole
- chemise
- collar
- come
- cravat
- cuff
- cufflink
- dashiki
- dicky
- dress shirt
- French cuff
- golf shirt
- grandad
- hair shirt
- Hawaiian shirt
- hoop
- jabot
- jersey
- kaftan
- kurta
- lumberjack shirt
- muscle shirt
- need
- nightshirt
- open-necked
- overshirt
- plastron
- polo shirt
- sark
- shirt dress
- shirtsleeve
- shirt tail
- shirtwaist
- shirtwaister
- shoot
- short
- skirt
- skivvy
- stripy
- stud
- stuffed shirt
- tail
- tank top
- tee
