shirtfront

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The front part of a shirt.

   “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.”

2. isim A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.

   “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.”

3. isim A pitch that is easy to bat on.
4. isim A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
5. isim An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.

   “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.”

6. fiil To confront in a threatening manner.

   “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.”