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Shirtfront

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The front part of a shirt.

    "In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts."

  2. 2
    a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt wordnet
  3. 3
    A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.

    "I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper."

  4. 4
    the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket) wordnet
  5. 5
    A pitch that is easy to bat on.
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  1. 6
    A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
  2. 7
    An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house. slang

    "It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front."

Verb
  1. 1
    To confront in a threatening manner. Australia, transitive

    "This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From shirt + front.

Etymology 2

From shirt + front.

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