- a piece of clothing worn on the upper part of the body, made of light cloth, with sleeves and usually with a collar and buttons down the front
- to wear a shirt
- a white/blue/red shirt
- He had a shirt and tie on.
- a long-sleeved/short-sleeved shirt
- an open-necked shirt
- a button-down shirt
- a cotton/flannel/silk shirt
- She took a pen from her shirt pocket.
- a football shirt
- in a shirt A man in a striped shirt sat alone in the corner.
Extra ExamplesTopics Clothes and Fashiona1- He tucked his shirt into his pants.
- He wears a crisp white shirt to the office every day.
- a footballer's shirt number
- I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.
- He was dressed in a loose fitting shirt and pants.
- He pulled on his shirt and ran down to see what had happened.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
- crisp
- fresh
- …
- button
- button up
- unbutton
- …
- button
- collar
- cuff
- …
- shirt and tie
Word OriginOld 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’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See shirt in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarykeep your shirt on
- (informal) used to tell somebody not to get angry
- Keep your shirt on! It was only a joke.
put your shirt on somebody/something
- (British English, informal) to bet all your money on somebody/something
- It's a good horse, but I wouldn't put my shirt on it.
the shirt off somebody’s back
- 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.
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