Crossword clues for shirt
shirt
- Poor gambler's loss?
- Collared garment
- Word after stuffed or empty
- Wearable top
- Top pick
- Oft-pressed dress item
- It might be stuffed or cuffed
- It might be "stuffed"
- Gym top
- Garment with a collar
- Gambler's loss?
- You buy a tour one at show
- What a superhero stereotypically tears off
- Under or T
- Ultimate gambling loss
- Top with arms
- Tank top or tee
- Symbol of total loss
- Symbol of gambling loss
- Something a risk-taking investor might lose
- Skin opposite, in sports
- Reckless gambler's loss?
- Polo or hair
- Polo ____
- One may lose it at the bookie's
- Metaphorical loss in a bad deal
- Metaphorical casino loss
- Metaphor in a gambling debacle
- Loser's metaphor
- Keep one's __ on (stay calm)
- Jersey, essentially
- Its tail may be tucked in
- Item that can be worn untucked
- It's bad to lose, in more ways than one
- It may list a neck size
- It has arms but not legs
- It can have a tail but never legs
- It can be stuffed or puffy
- Hair product of sorts
- Hair or night
- Garment with arms
- Garment whose name aptly ends with "t"
- Garment behind a necktie
- Gambler's heavy loss, figuratively
- Collar, cuffs, etc
- Charlie Brown's features a zigzag
- Button-down apparel
- "Button-down" garment
- __ and tie (business attire)
- T, for one
- Top choice
- Tee, e.g.
- Polo, e.g.
- Polo or tee
- Unlucky investor's loss, proverbially
- Jersey, e.g
- Stuffed item?
- Team member's need
- Tank top, e.g.
- Hold aside, as a college athlete, to extend his eligibility
- Collar site
- Trunk coverer
- See 62D
- Jersey, e.g.
- Stuffed ___ (pompous person)
- Back cover?
- What a dickey simulates
- Italian Fascist
- A garment worn on the upper half of the body
- ___ of Nessus (fatal gift)
- Wagered garment
- Gift that finished Hercules
- Plunger's loss
- Thereby hangs a tail?
- Plunger's potential loss
- Kind of waist or tail
- Something to keep on
- Poisoned garb that killed Hercules
- Camise
- Haberdashery item
- "Keep your ___ on!"
- Blouse, e.g
- Guayabera
- Ascetic's hair ___
- Male garment worn with tie
- Sleeved garment
- Upper garment
- Tee, e.g
- Polo, e.g
- Haberdashery buy
- Polo, for one
- Jersey, for one
- It's sometimes required for service
- It may be stuffed
- Gambler's loss, figuratively
- The last thing a gambler loses?
- Tee or polo
- Tank top, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shirt
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clean shirt/sheet/towel etc
▪ Where are all my clean socks?
a cotton shirt/dress/jacket etc
▪ Egyptian cotton sheets are very expensive here.
a football shirt
▪ They were all wearing England football shirts.
a jacket/trouser/shirt etc pocket
▪ She slipped the map into her jacket pocket.
a shirt/skirt/coat etc button
▪ Is this your coat button?
dress shirt
hair shirt
Hawaiian shirt
lost...shirts (=lost a lot of money)
▪ A lot of people lost their shirts on Ferraris in the eighties.
polo shirt
shirt tail
sport shirt
sports shirt
stuffed shirt
tee shirt
undo your jacket/shirt/bra etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ Black over-tunics, with a fine white stripe, and black shirt with wide white ties.
▪ He wore a loincloth and a black shirt.
▪ Some piano music tinkles gently in the background, a black Armani shirt clings softly to his chest.
▪ He wore a black pullover shirt, short-sleeve, and a pair of dark chinos.
▪ The girl and the young man in the black shirt watched them.
▪ He wore a black cotton shirt, tan shorts, and no shoes.
▪ The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans.
▪ He wore a black cowboy hat, black shirt, fatigue pants, combat boots.
blue
▪ Whenever Chelsea's defence did look about to be breached, an eager blue shirt would arrive.
▪ The development team, recognizable by their custom-made royal-#blue bowling shirts, were accorded celebrity status.
▪ They were prepared to ferry the ball from blue shirt to blue shirt and in the process frustrate Nottingham Forest.
▪ A short-sleeved blue Arrow shirt strained to contain a chest as vast as the Sahara.
▪ He was wearing khakis, a blue polo shirt and sneakers.
clean
▪ I wear a tang of aftershave and a clean shirt.
▪ When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt.
▪ He wore his best suit, a clean silk shirt and shaved extra close.
▪ They washed at a pump behind the church, and each child was dressed in a clean shirt.
▪ He goes into the bedroom and puts on a clean white shirt and a suit.
▪ The parquet was shined, the table-cloths starched and the waiters had clean shirts.
▪ Fresh hose a clean shirt, a cup of claret, a meat pie and a manchet loaf!
▪ He got out of bed and put his clothes on, the same clothes but a clean shirt.
green
▪ A green shirt beer-bulged over a low-slung belt.
▪ Kaczynski wore khaki pants and a long-sleeved green shirt during his appearance.
▪ He was wearing a brown jacket, green shirt and blue jeans.
▪ He wore a pale green business shirt, and his shave was absolutely perfect, even as midafternoon came and went.
▪ She wore an emerald green silk shirt, a very short black leather skirt and black tights.
▪ I had a pair of tan cotton pants and a green checkered shirt.
▪ The quarterback wears a green plaid shirt that flaps in the late-afternoon wind.
hawaiian
▪ They perm their hair, dress in Hawaiian shirts and drive huge Mercedes cars through narrow streets.
▪ Friar Laurence sports a fullback tattoo and Hawaiian shirt beneath his priestly robes.
▪ A busload of tourists came in behind us, maybe twenty Hawaiians in Hawaiian shirts, with cameras and funny hats.
▪ Looking up, Converse saw a street photographer in a Hawaiian shirt advancing toward his bench.
pink
▪ Dann opened the door himself, looking warm and sticky in a pink short-sleeved shirt and bright green slacks.
▪ His pink shirt clinging to the curve of his belly.
▪ Thomas pink shirt, as before.
▪ Like the way he was dressed now, the corduroy suit pants and pink sport shirt and scuffed-up black shoes.
▪ Rahmi walked by at exactly ten-thirty, wearing a pink Lacoste shirt and immaculately pressed tan trousers, looking edgy.
▪ Jeremy Yes, the gentleman in the pink shirt.
plaid
▪ Lyle, wearing a plaid shirt, stared gape-mouthed at Conn.
▪ Lamar Alexander has plaid shirts and youth.
▪ As usual, Marty is wearing a plaid shirt, suspenders and Harley-Davidson cap.
▪ Hanging on the far wall was a large painting of a pale man in a plaid flannel shirt.
▪ He was tall and slender and wore a plaid flannel shirt and dark brown pants.
▪ Many of the men wore plaid shirts and jeans or unironed pants, donning ties only when they had their pictures taken.
▪ I fished a wool plaid shirt from my canvas bag and he put it on.
▪ What about pale-faced geeks in plaid shirts?
red
▪ Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi's army were made.
▪ On the other seats were more meu wearing red shirts: they were crammed ill, five to a seat.
▪ Or complain because some one's red shirt has run?
▪ I saw men in red shirts throwing punches at an old man.
▪ He caught sight of a dark-haired boy in a bright red shirt and green shorts coming out of the shop.
▪ Peasants with pitchforks? Red flannel shirts?
▪ One of his hands, meanwhile, was exploring her back, inside her red shirt.
▪ Westerveld was submerged under a mountain of red shirts, Birmingham's valiant O'Connor and Jon McCarthy were left sobbing.
striped
▪ The striped shirt man now began to talk about the portfolio.
▪ One was wearing a beige T shirt, one a white T shirt and another a striped white shirt.
▪ He was photographed by Man Ray in a sharp, dark suit with a striped shirt and white collar.
▪ Helen explained about the house. Striped shirt nodded.
▪ He clashed striped shirts, check jackets and spotted ties.
▪ He was six feet two, and wore dark blue trousers with a blue and white striped shirt.
▪ Him: suit jacket, £680; striped shirt, £190.
▪ He was elderly, bald, very thin, wearing a striped shirt of the kind that have detachable collars.
white
▪ He wore a charcoal-grey business suit, with a pristine white shirt and maroon silk tie.
▪ He wore a navy-blue suit, white shirt and black tie.
▪ My mum came in at about 07.15, holding out my black suit and a white shirt that she had just ironed.
▪ The players wore short-sleeve white shirts, long white pants and dark bow ties, with baseball caps and white sneakers.
▪ He had bought a new white shirt and was wearing a regimental tie which had cost him tuppence in a jumble sale.
▪ She wore red pants and a white shirt.
▪ Then Jack Scamp appeared from inside the Mimosa, nattily dressed in white shirt, dark tie and dark blazer.
▪ Hank would arrive each morning, dressed in his neat three-piece suit, white shirt, and solid-color tie.
yellow
▪ He's young, this one, no more than twenty, and he wears street clothes, a yellow nylon shirt.
▪ When I visit Weiser he is wearing a loud yellow shirt flanked by red suspenders.
▪ The boy is wearing the yellow check lumberjack shirt Sam bought him.
▪ He was in white ducks, brown and white wing tips, and a yellow silk sport shirt.
▪ Rory walked towards her, dressed in jeans and sneakers, a soft yellow shirt.
▪ The sun has half risen in that time and it lights up the fabric of the yellow shirt like stained glass.
▪ He wore cream linen trousers and a pale yellow shirt that was definitely not off the peg.
▪ He always wore a tie, but his ties never seemed to reach more than half way down his yellow shirts.
■ NOUN
collar
▪ As he opened the front door to his rooms, his shirt collar was slightly damp.
▪ The water had worked its way down inside his shirt collar.
▪ Loosen tie &038; undo top button of shirt so that shirt collar bows out and tie arches forward like a cup handle.
▪ I would sweat so hard that my shirt collar turned white from the salt leached out from my body.
▪ Though it was a warm day, he was wearing his old faded high-necked sweater with a frayed shirt collar showing.
▪ His jacket size varies between 62 and 64, with a 22-inch shirt collar.
▪ I loosened my shirt collar and watched a couple of generals being saluted by their chauffeurs.
▪ She takes my arm, grabs me by the shirt collar, pulls me close, pulls me into her life.
cotton
▪ She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.
▪ He wore a black cotton shirt, tan shorts, and no shoes.
▪ She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt.
▪ Palm trees sway on the backs of countless cotton shirts.
▪ There are several cotton shirts on the market which are practical yet stylish enough to wear in the city.
▪ At the front, inside the thick cotton shirt, was the flat protuberance of the packet.
▪ But there are no chinos, cotton shirts or Shetland sweaters here.
dress
▪ Zach put it on and when the jacket was done up it looked as if he was wearing a proper dress shirt.
▪ He wears a suit and a dress shirt without a tie, along with a straw hat that is out of style.
▪ For one thing, I forgot to turn off the iron and nearly burnt the Professor's dress shirt I was ironing.
▪ He wore a short-sleeved dress shirt with the collar open and his necktie at half-mast.
▪ He threw my dress shirt over it so all was pale blue.
▪ Every day Mones came to class in a short-sleeved dress shirt and shiny black tie-up shoes.
flannel
▪ He bought the kid a bigger check flannel shirt this time.
▪ As she was talking a man in olive-drab slacks and an open-necked flannel shirt joined her.
▪ He was dressed in a flannel shirt that was covered in sawdust.
▪ The man in the flannel shirt heads toward the door but is stopped as two young women enter.
▪ Hanging on the far wall was a large painting of a pale man in a plaid flannel shirt.
▪ He was tall and slender and wore a plaid flannel shirt and dark brown pants.
hair
▪ Thérèse did not possess a hair shirt, or a belt spiked with rusty nails, or a scourge.
▪ Under any circumstance, an official retraction is a terrible hair shirt.
▪ So, after luxuriating in its hair shirt for a few days, the City would have sold sterling anyway.
▪ They go around wearing their pensions like hair shirts.
▪ If Cleo represented a hair shirt, he would wear it, and withstand the chafing.
▪ From her childhood she sacrificed and mortified herself and wore a hair shirt.
▪ And his hair shirt of guilt brought its perverse comfort again.
▪ Among penances approved by the Church were wearing a hair shirt which was prickly and uncomfortable, walking barefoot, and fasting.
pocket
▪ New technology has produced phones so light that they can be carried unobtrusively in a shirt pocket.
▪ He now took a pair of sunglasses from his shirt pocket and pointed them at me.
▪ His management trademark is carrying index cards in his shirt pocket so that he can note mistakes while visiting Darden restaurants.
▪ He took a plain card and a pen from his shirt pocket.
▪ He pulled the crumpled bills from his shirt pocket and dropped them on the desk.
▪ There was a live round of its ammunition in his shirt pocket.
▪ He dresses conservatively-black shoes and all-the only hint at aristocracy being a tiny monogram on the shirt pocket.
polo
▪ Wearing her navy shorts and a jade-green polo shirt, she felt cool and fresh.
▪ Gary wears regulation Levi 501 jeans and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt.
▪ The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans.
▪ Or buy a tailored polo shirt that fits?
▪ Right Long-sleeve polo shirt, £16.99; trousers, fencer's own.
▪ He was wearing a blue blazer and a white polo shirt.
▪ Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
▪ Everybody here is dressed for the Love Boat, in shorts, polo shirts and Reeboks.
silk
▪ Ash wore a long, rough silk shirt, and leggings.
▪ The man was dressed in a white duck suit and a pale-blue silk shirt and a grey silk tie.
▪ He had on a white silk shirt, black slacks, and black loafers.
▪ Pale blue silk shirt, £175, Giorgio Armani.
▪ He gave Margarett one of his monogrammed silk shirts to use as a smock.
▪ Slight, fair, silk shirt, tight pants, and he walks as though he wants to wee-wee.
▪ He put on his silk shirt with a few chains underneath.
sleeve
▪ Having taken off their jackets and rolled up their trouser bottoms, the fathers worked barefoot in shirt sleeves.
▪ Her shirt sleeve falls open at the cuff as she turns back, and I see the razor marks on her wrist.
▪ Dickinson, in shirt sleeves, shuddered.
▪ Because his shoulders are narrow, he never works in his shirt sleeves, and is seldom seen publicly in casual clothes.
▪ Tweed was clad in shirt sleeves and a pair of lightweight slacks as he stared out of his office window.
▪ He reached through brambles lined with blood-drawing thorns thick as knives that cut through his shirt sleeves and trousers.
▪ His tie was loose and he was in his shirt sleeves.
▪ Tattoos peek out from shirt sleeves.
sweat
▪ Theresa was wearing jeans and a grubby sweat shirt with a map of London's Underground across the front.
▪ You could buy a hooded sweat shirt for $ 25 yesterday.
▪ He had short fair hair and was wearing a black sweat shirt with a hood and blue jeans.
▪ The uniform is topped by a T-shirt and sweat shirt for men and women.
tee
▪ I bought some lucky white heather and a silver horseshoe from a little girl in jeans and a grubby tee shirt.
▪ The arms of the tee shirt barely rounded the curve of his shoulders, the hem hung an inch above his navel.
▪ He was a pleasant chap with blond curls and a Mickey Mouse tee shirt on.
▪ James Walker wore a white tee shirt not quite large enough to accommodate his biceps and pectorals.
▪ She was wearing a huge orange tee shirt and black leggings and looked exactly as she always looked.
▪ Tillman compressed his lips and, with a butter knife, dug at a smudge of paste stuck to his tee shirt.
▪ Neither barber, in their tight-fitting tee shirts and faded bathing trunks, appeared lacking in backbone or mettle.
■ VERB
buy
▪ Wandering out to buy shirts and more cigarettes.
▪ Give up trying to buy souvenir shirt.
▪ Or else - more generously - I am buying one shirt for myself and two for my son.
▪ Or buy a tailored polo shirt that fits?
▪ Why am I buying two shirts for one son and only one for the other?
▪ Readers can buy shirts, maps, Route 66 wristwatches or videos.
▪ He had bought a new white shirt and was wearing a regimental tie which had cost him tuppence in a jumble sale.
▪ He pulled a hundred-bill from his wallet and told me to buy a new shirt.
iron
▪ Diana was so chummy with him she even used to iron his shirts.
▪ Margaret had ironed me some shirts and draped them over a clothes-horse in the hail.
▪ Well, he can iron his best shirts.
▪ As the neatly ironed shirt billows out a special effect signifies the effects of Bold.
▪ Do you want to iron his shirts for 50 years?
lose
▪ In the subsequent furore, I nearly lost my Leeds shirt to a rabid band of Man U supporting women.
▪ In both cases you can lose your shirt.
▪ In short, can a man lose his wife without losing his shirt and his kids as well?
pull
▪ Just pull his shirt out and mess up his hair a little, and his friends would be happy.
▪ He violently pulled out his shirt and stomped his feet on the ground.
▪ She jumped out of bed and, pulling on her shirt, darted next door into the head.
▪ He pulled his shirt from his stomach where it had stuck with his sweat.
▪ I pushed in a couple of pessaries, untied the sack from my middle and pulled my shirt over my head.
▪ The back door flew open and Norm rushed in, pulling off his filthy shirt.
▪ She had pulled her shirt around her but apart from that she had not moved.
▪ She pulled off the shirt, too.
put
▪ For leisure, put on chainstore polo-type shirt and slacks.
▪ Gabriel put on his white shirt and scarlet tabard with the gold embroidery.
▪ I had put on a fresh shirt, and yet my skin itched.
▪ He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink.
▪ He put on his silk shirt with a few chains underneath.
▪ He decided to put his two drip-dry shirts through the washer that night.
▪ Some of the delegation had put on long-sleeve shirts.
stuff
▪ I stuffed my shirt tail back into my trousers and tried to straighten my tie.
▪ And a multitude of stuffed owls, peering through the candlelight, would mutely rebuke stuffed shirts.
undo
▪ Loosen tie &038; undo top button of shirt so that shirt collar bows out and tie arches forward like a cup handle.
▪ His flies were undone and his shirt torn.
▪ She began to undo the third shirt.
wear
▪ Welcome to torso city: these lads don't wear shirts.
▪ Lyle, wearing a plaid shirt, stared gape-mouthed at Conn.
▪ She often made me feel vaguely guilty, as if I'd forgotten to clean my teeth or was wearing a grubby shirt.
▪ The players wore short-sleeve white shirts, long white pants and dark bow ties, with baseball caps and white sneakers.
▪ He's ruled out through injury so Colin Anderson will wear the number 3 shirt.
▪ He wore a black pullover shirt, short-sleeve, and a pair of dark chinos.
▪ He had short fair hair and was wearing a black sweat shirt with a hood and blue jeans.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
keep your hair/shirt on!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I have to wear a shirt and tie to work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A young man looked at Ozzie, who was standing in the hallway, smiling, in his shirt and dusty Jeans.
▪ Dann opened the door himself, looking warm and sticky in a pink short-sleeved shirt and bright green slacks.
▪ His jeans and checked shirt, though old and well worn, looked clean and of good quality.
▪ Janir slipped off his shirt and pants and dove under the sheets.
▪ Or else - more generously - I am buying one shirt for myself and two for my son.
▪ She might never have ironed shirts, but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises, little presents.
▪ Three buttons were missing from his shirt.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shirt
Shirt \Shirt\, n. [OE. schirte, sherte, schurte; akin to Icel. skyrta, Dan. skiorte, Sw. skjorta, Dan. ski["o]rt a petticoat, D. schort a petticoat, an argon, G. schurz, sch["u]rze, an argon; all probably from the root of E. short, as being originally a short garment. See Short, and cf. Skirt.] A loose under-garment for the upper part of the body, made of cotton, linen, or other material; -- formerly used of the under-garment of either sex, now commonly restricted to that worn by men and boys.
Several persons in December had nothing over their
shoulders but their shirts.
--Addison.
She had her shirts and girdles of hair.
--Bp. Fisher.
Shirt
Shirt \Shirt\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Shirted; p. pr. & vb.
n. Shirting.]
To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as with a shirt.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shirt
Old English scyrte "skirt, tunic," from Proto-Germanic *skurtjon "a short garment" (cognates: Old Norse skyrta, Swedish skjorta "skirt, kirtle;" Middle Dutch scorte, Dutch schort "apron;" Middle High German schurz, German Schurz "apron"), related to Old English scort, sceort "short," from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)).\n
\nFormerly of the chief garment worn by both sexes, but in modern use long only of that for men; in reference to women's tops, reintroduced 1896. Bloody shirt, exposed as a symbol of outrage, is attested from 1580s. To give (someone) the shirt off one's back is from 1771. To lose one's shirt "suffer total financial loss" is from 1935. To keep one's shirt on "be patient" (1904) is from the notion of (not) stripping down for a fight.
Wiktionary
shirt
n. An article of clothing that is wear on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms. vb. To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
WordNet
shirt
n. a garment worn on the upper half of the body
shirt
v. put a shirt on
Wikipedia
Shirt
A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body.
Originally an undergarment worn exclusively by men and women it has become, in American English, a catch-all term for a broad variety of upper-body garments and undergarments. In British English, a shirt is more specifically a garment with a collar, sleeves with cuffs, and a full vertical opening with buttons or snaps (North Americans would call that a " dress shirt", a specific type of "collared shirt"). A shirt can also be worn with a necktie under the shirt collar.
Usage examples of "shirt".
For a fraction of an instant Abie caught herself wondering what he might look like with no shirt.
He did manage to use his fire magic on a few of them, setting their shirts and hair ablaze, and that forced the rest to reconsider their attack for a time.
I ripped away my shirt and poured undiluted acriflavine solution into the cavernous wounds.
Clodius Afer in amazement, his fingers hesitating in the midst of releasing the laces that held the shoulder straps to the front of his mail shirt.
Reuben sat his horse beside me, with his spare shirt streaming in the wind and his great pikemen all agrin behind him, though his thoughts and his eyes were too far away to note them.
Her expression was grim, but she showed no surprise when he shrugged out of his tunic, squirmed into a padded buckram aketon, and lifted his scale shirt from its rack.
He wore an anachronistic costume: white drip-dry shirt, jeans and laceless leather slippers.
Brett wasted no time to strip off his travel stained shirt, leaving Angelique to gape in stunned amazement.
We stayed at Cannes about two months, and except for the fact that Aunt Dahlia lost her shirt at baccarat and Angela nearly got inhaled by a shark while aquaplaning, a pleasant time was had by all.
Drops landed in the aquarium, splashed, and marked the front of his shirt with further droplets.
Shelly, aseptic in white jacket and white shirt and white trousers, waved back and drove on into the stadium.
His resistless word split asunder the orb of the moon: the obedient planet stooped from her station in the sky, accomplished the seven revolutions round the Caaba, saluted Mahomet in the Arabian tongue, and, suddenly contracting her dimensions, entered at the collar, and issued forth through the sleeve, of his shirt.
As he reached it, a fellow chief, this one a chief aviation pilot with the wings of a Naval Aviator on his shirt, appeared in the fuselage bubble gingerly holding a canvas suitcase in his fingers.
I shall put on about twenty kilos - I have a suit and shirt designed to cope with the excess avoirdupois -fatten my cheeks, tint hair and moustache, wear a sinister scar and a black leather glove.
Pandaras, sitting bare-chested and cross-legged in the shade of the awning at the far end of the main deck, looked up from the embroidery work he was doing on the collar of his shirt.