noun
Meaning 1
The front part of a shirt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
shirtfront
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noun
Meaning 2
A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A pitch that is easy to bat on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 4
A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Australian rules football
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noun
Meaning 5
An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: business, real-estate
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verb
Meaning 6
To confront in a threatening manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, transitive
Topics: government, politics
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noun
Meaning 7
a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dickey, dickie, dicky
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insert, inset
noun
Meaning 8
the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he had spilled catsup on his shirtfront
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: front
Narrower terms: plastron
History
Etymology
From shirt + front.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: нагръдник (nagrǎdnik) — the front part of a shirt
- Dutch: voorkant — the front part of a shirt
- Finnish: etumus — the front part of a shirt
- Galician: cós — the front part of a shirt
- Norman: fale dé c'mînse — the front part of a shirt
- Polish: przód — the front part of a shirt
- Romanian: pieptar — the front part of a shirt
- Spanish: peto — the front part of a shirt