jersey
- noun
- /ˈdʒɜrzi/
- We're all wearing our team jerseys, these white tank tops, and then these green footed shorts.
- wear a jersey
- white jersey
- jerseys and t-shirts
So make sure they're wearing sports jerseys during games only.
- So make sure they're wearing sports jerseys during games only.
- If you're right, you may get that person's jersey as a surprise by me.
- I want to trade jerseys with Steve Smith for my daughter.
- It's going to be an an alternate jersey for the Arizona Cardinals.
- I show up and I see our entire group is in football jerseys, jeans and like sandals.
- And then Reggie White just was like, just put the jersey on, like, just no gloves.
Examples
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It's now time for us to give our game jerseys to our dates, which they will wear at school all day tomorrow.
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If I buy a Real Madrid jersey, can we still be friends?
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Oh, you wore a jersey to dinner.
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By the way, did your son like the soccer jersey?
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So is this your soccer jersey, Roger?
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Those football players, they get new jerseys every year.
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I'm going to wear the Lions jersey that you bought me at the Lions Bears game.
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How small he looks, childlike in his favorite basketball jersey and Carolina-blue cap.
Academic text (2007) -
Billy is riding his bicycle, wearing a New York Rangers jersey with "Hitchcock" across the back of the shoulders.
Fiction book (2000) -
He wore a blue jersey with the team's logo during the match.
Synonyms
A shirt with no collar and short sleeves usually made of cotton and worn casually
A casual shirt with short sleeves that fits close to the body
Compounds
An island in the English Channel near the coast of France that is a British Crown dependency
- US
A small bushy pine tree from the eastern United States with twisted branches and short needles in pairs
How Tight
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jersey for the close-fitting pullover comes from the same knitted cloth first made on the island of Jersey, where knit sweaters were common. So a jersey is the pullover or team shirt made from that stretchy fabric and often worn in sports.