shirt
An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms.
Noun 3 meanings
An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms.
“He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.”
An interior lining in a blast furnace.
A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.
Verb 1 meaning
To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
Etymology
From Middle English schirt, schirte, schuirte, schyrtte, seorte, shearte, shert, shirt, sseorte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”), from *skertaną (“to cut off”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off; to divide”).
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SHIRT at a glance
SHIRT has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (S 1 + H 4 + I 1 + R 1 + T 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,311 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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