Shirtfront

Quick meaning: Shirtfront is a noun meaning The front part of a shirt.

Meaning

The front part of a shirt.

More Meanings

1. A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.
2. (cricket) A pitch that is easy to bat on.
3. (Australian rules football) A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
4. (real estate, slang) An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.
5. (transitive, Australia, politics) To confront in a threatening manner.

Example Sentences

False fronts, frequently called "shirt fronts," are futile attempts to make a small, cheap house pass for something larger and more valuable.

Pravda has described Tony Abbott as “a disturbed mind crying out for therapy”: after his threat to “shirtfront” the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Brisbane.

This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility.

In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.

Word Forms

• shirtfronts
• shirtfronting
• shirtfronted

Synonyms for shirtfront

Depending on context, synonyms include dicky, dickie, dickey.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dickey, dicky, dickie, foreskirt, overfront, forepiece.

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