Definitions for shirt

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shirt shirt

Spelling: [shurt]

IPA: /ʃɜrt/

Shirt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in shirt (hirst).

Definitions for shirt

noun

1. a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
2. an undergarment of cotton, or other material, for the upper part of the body.
3. a shirtwaist.
4. a nightshirt.

Idioms

1. in one's shirt sleeves, without a coat: Also, in one's shirt-sleeves.
2. keep one's shirt on, Informal. to refrain from becoming angry or impatient; remain calm:
3. lose one's shirt, Informal. to lose all that one possesses; suffer a severe financial reverse:

Origin of shirt

before 1150; Middle English schirte, Old English scyrte; cognate with German Schürze, Dutch schort apron, Old Norse skyrta skirt

Examples for shirt

"But his sitting there eating in that—that shirt—" said his sister.

Diablo reached for him, and lifted the shirt clean off his back.

A smirking Ramone is shown wearing both a CBGB shirt and heavy gold chains, posing next to an enormous boombox.

It's a shirt and a plain stocking were got off a drowned man in Donegal.

He took his hand off the car and put it back underneath his shirt.

All right, then; that letter I wrote is a shirt, and the welkin's the ruffle on it.

For James, wearing the shirt was “more of a shout-out to the family more than anything,” he told the Akron Beacon Journal.

Prices are relatively inexpensive and come in at around 135 euros for a shirt or 35 euros for hand woven boxers.

There, he first picked up needle and thread to mend the shirt of an SS guard who had just beaten him.

Then he stopped, tore off his shirt, and ripped it with his right hand and his teeth into strips.