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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(sports) 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)..
Use shirt-front when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shirt-front means (sports) 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)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use shirt-front where its definition matches the intended context.
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