a piece of clothing (usually for men), 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 and tie a short-sleeved shirt a cotton shirt see nightshirt, polo shirt, stuffed shirt, sweatshirt, T-shirt
Idioms used to tell someone not to get angry Keep your shirt on! It was only a joke. anything that someone has, including the things they really need themselves, that someone 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. See shirt in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation:
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