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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sweatshirt
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
wear
▪ They can wear a sweatshirt or blouse, with culottes or sweat pants.
▪ I think I was wearing a sweatshirt when the bagger put them in my sack.
▪ She wears an enormous white sweatshirt so bulky that she could have had it from Ludo.
▪ One of the attackers was wearing a sweatshirt with Weetabix written across it.
▪ One wore a sweatshirt and jeans, while the other wore jeans and an orange and grey t-shirt.
▪ He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt, which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her body sags inside her oversized sweatshirt.
▪ Her lurex leggings, high suede boots and yellow sweatshirt are folded and tucked away with equal care.
▪ Her white sweatshirt is bunched up and tucked in at the small of her back, so her rear is exposed.
▪ I replace my urban costume with jeans and a sweatshirt and feel more at peace.
▪ In his sweatshirt and jeans it feels as if it is no temperature at all.
▪ It was raining quite hard and his Canals sweatshirt felt lumpy and cold.
▪ One of the attackers was wearing a sweatshirt with Weetabix written across it.
▪ Or the aerobics look-spandex and sweatshirts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sweatshirt

also sweat-shirt, 1921, from sweat (v.) + shirt. Related: Sweatshirted.

Wiktionary
sweatshirt

n. 1 A loose shirt, usually made of a knit fleece, for athletic wear and now often used as casual apparel. 2 A shirt worn against the skin, usually under other clothing, to absorb sweat.

WordNet
sweatshirt

n. cotton knit pullover with long sleeves worn during athletic activity

Wikipedia
Sweatshirt (song)

"Sweatshirt" is the debut single recorded by American internet personality and recording artist Jacob Sartorius. It was made available for digital download on May 3, 2016 through T3 Music Group.

Usage examples of "sweatshirt".

The visitor stepped back away from the door, and through the gauzelike curtains I could make out a dark-hooded sweatshirt covering his head.

She had interviewed for her job with Senator Marshall in a Towson State University sweatshirt and nonmatching Army sweatpants.

Now my jeans and sweatshirt were folded in a helpless pile beside me and there was only a thin sheet of paper between my rolls of dimply flesh and this detestable old man.

His outlandish hair, his satanic earring, and his smartass sweatshirt afforded so many opportunities to zing me, that Hobart finally let the kid off with a ninety-day suspended and a two-fifty fine.

She was younger, too, with a tomboyish air, but not even faded jeans, a worn sweatshirt and baseball cap could hide her stunning dark eyes, full lips and luxuriously thick, red-touched brown hair.

Head down, Maggie plodded along between Dani and Amaya, her sweatshirt a red speck growing smaller and smaller.

A woman in jeans and a green sweatshirt with a hedgehog appliqued to its front stood there.

Susa will probably be wearing paint-crusted jeans and one of Archers old sweatshirts.

He was wearing an oversized Tech sweatshirt and flip flops His eyes were bleary, and she noticed that his arms were not in the armholes of the sweatshirt.

Enough so that she had a revelation when she walked into the station twenty minutes later to find Jack Murray in her office stripping off a wet buttondown shirt and yanking on a dry sweatshirt, giving her a front-seat view of well-developed muscles and soft, dark chest hair that trailed on down his belly to the belt of his pants.

Sarah and I looked quite the devoted couple in our matching suburbanite jeans and sweatshirts, with neat nylon bomber jackets for the rain.

Guinness sweatshirts, umbrellas, and baseball caps, and leprechauns in tins and little pots of grow-your-own shamrock.

She was finally able to wear the special club sweatshirt and attend semisecret meetings at 7:30 on Wednesday nights.

No reason at all, and yet before going downstairs she stared at herself critically in her bedroom mirror and decided depressingly that she was perfectly safe from Silas because no man with any sense of taste could possibly find anything remotely attractive in a five foot-two female dressed in old jeans and a bulky sweatshirt, who wore her hair in a cloud of untidy curls.

Across the street, in the other arcade, a skinny kid in jeans and a sweatshirt came out of one of the storefronts, began sweeping sand off the boardwalk into the street.