Definitions for shirt-sleeve

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Spelling: [shurt-sleev]

IPA: /ˈʃɜrtˌsliv/

Shirt-Sleeve is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 594 anagrams from letters in shirt-sleeve (-eeehilrsstv).

Definitions for shirt-sleeve

adjective

1. not wearing a jacket; informally dressed:
2. warm enough to live or work in without wearing a jacket or coat:
3. simple, plain, and informal; direct and straightforward in approach, manner, etc.:

Origin of shirt-sleeve

First recorded in 1560-70

Examples for shirt-sleeve

As he spoke he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt-sleeve.

The wind dragged a shirt-sleeve from the 'popple' or pebble which held it down.

How did you get all that earth on your clothes and tear your shirt-sleeve?

I perceived some spots of blood on his shirt-sleeve, and pointed them out to him.

Yes; so he got half a quart of brandy, and that he poured up his shirt-sleeve.

He rolled up his shirt-sleeve and compared the white underside if the arm with his face.

Leigh nodded, as he drew his shirt-sleeve down over his bandages.

So I must elbow in myself, and see what my shirt-sleeve diplomacy can do.

But he had no pencil, or he could have written it on his shirt-sleeve.

The youngest of the children is holding him by the shirt-sleeve.