Shirt Football Noun Bre ʃɜːt ʃɜːrt Wear Tie

• to wear a shirt and tie
• a short-sleeved shirt
• a football shirt
• he tucked his shirt into his pants.

shirt

1. a piece of clothing (usually for men), worn on the upper part of the body, made of light cloth, with sleeves and usually with a collar and buttons down the front
• see also nightshirt
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• to wear a shirt and tie
• a short-sleeved shirt
• a football shirt
2. used to tell somebody not to get angry
• Keep your shirt on! It was only a joke.
3. to bet all your money on somebody/something
• It's a good horse, but I wouldn't put my shirt on it.
4. anything that somebody has, including the things they really need themselves, that somebody else takes from them or they are willing to give
• He was the type of person who would give you the shirt off his back.

Extra Examples

• He tucked his shirt into his pants.
• He wears a crisp white shirt to the office every day.
• a footballer’s shirt number
• replica football shirts with Beckham’s famous number 7

Word Origin

• Old English scyrte, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse skyrta (compare with skirt), Dutch schort, German Schürze ‘apron’, also to short; probably from a base meaning ‘short garment’.