Shirtfront

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The front part of a shirt..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front.

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

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• shirtfronts
• shirtfronting
• shirtfronted

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