Shirt Front

Word SHIRT FRONT
Character 11
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Definitions and meanings of "Shirt Front"

What do we mean by shirt front?

To knock down an opponent by colliding with them chest-to-chest (Australian rules football) or tackle them by grabbing their chest by their shirt front and wrestling them to the ground (rugby league football).

To aggressively threaten an opponent by standing toe to toe with them while or before verbally or physically abusing them.

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The word "shirt-front" in example sentences

His shirt-front was covered with drool and his jeans—the kind that snapped between the legs—had spots of saliva on them also. ❋ Julia London (2011)

My neighbor laughed, but his laughter only irritated me still more against him, and my eyes went to Yeats, who sat, his head drooping on his shirt-front, like a crane, uncertain whether he should fold himself up for the night, and I wondered what was the beautiful eloquence that was germinating in his mind. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

His shirt-front and cuffs were white frosting, and the buttons on his coat were licorice drops. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His lank white hair flowed over his shoulders, and his neckcloth and shirt-front were smeared with blood. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His plump hands are linked across his shirt-front in parsonical tranquillity. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)

He wears a low cravat; a shirt-front of the finest lawn, with ruby buttons. ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘I am afraid,’ said a gentleman who was suffering from a bad shirt-front, ‘that an estimate which depends upon feeling in that way is not to be trusted as permanent opinion.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

They welcomed her with a painfully lavish exhibition of large new gloves, and chests covered with broad triangular areas of padded blue silk, occupying the position that the shirt-front had occupied in earlier days, and supposed to be lineally descended from the tie of a neckerchief. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Drew, pounding his fist into some pirate he was holding by the shirt-front. ❋ Johanna Lindsey (2006)

Blunt had unbuttoned his shabby jacket, exposing a lot of starched shirt-front with the white tie under his dark shaved chin. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The tears kept streaming over my cheeks, my lips, my collar, my shirt-front. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There he stood, about whom she was going to die ten months since, dandified, supercilious, with a black crape to his white hat, and jet buttons in his shirt-front and a pink in his coat, that some one else had probably given him: with the tightest lavender-coloured gloves sewn with black and the smallest of canes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Warrington looked with good-natured interest at the young fellow dandifying himself up to a pitch of completeness; and appearing at length in a gorgeous shirt-front and neckcloth, fresh gloves, and glistening boots. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Giglio only burst out a-laughing as the Crimean Prince wiped his shirt-front and face with his scented pocket-handkerchief. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Standing there in that common 18th century pose, his right hand tucked in his shirt-front, the Virginia planter looks like a man quite satisfied and content with his lot in life. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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