Definitions for shirts

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shirts shirt

Spelling: [shurt]

IPA: /ʃɜrt/

Shirts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in shirts (hirsst).

Definitions for shirts

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 shirts

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

Examples for shirts

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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