Undershift

Quick meaning: Undershift is a noun meaning An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.

Meaning

An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.

More Meanings

1. (sports) The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
2. (mineralogy) The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
3. (mechanical engineering) A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
4. A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
5. (geology) An underhang caused by seismic shift.
6. (sports) To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
7. (mechanical engineering) To undershoot when changing gears.

Example Sentences

In an overshift or undershift the spacing of the linemen should be over one "full man" from the normal.

She would make a tiny pocket in an undershift. Even boys wore undershifts, though theirs were shorter than the knee-length ones girls wore.

Do they employ an undershift? Overshift? If they do undershift or overshift the line, is it a half-man or full-man over- shift or undershift?

"Everyone who plays four linemen ends up in an overshift or undershift," says Phillips, "and that makes the same alignment we're playing to start with.

Word Forms

• undershifts
• undershifting
• undershifted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overshift, undershirt, underthing, bottom, underfrock, undergarment.

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