T-shirt

nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈtiːʃɜːt//
United States//ˈtiːʃɚt//

A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan.

noun

1
A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan.
Many bands make more money from T-shirt sales than from sale of tickets.
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
2
datedAn undershirt.

Etymology

From its shape, 1920s.

Forms

plural: T-shirts

t · The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and…T · The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and…t-shirt · Letter case form of T-shirt.

T-shirt · A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan.

t. · Used as a way of signing off posts. Typically followed by an…ta · Thanks.TA · To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).

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