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jersey

jersey

101 2.4
A knitted, close-fitting shirt worn by players as part of a team uniform
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒɜrzi/
translation icon : camiseta
  • 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.

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Examples

  • It's now time for us to give our game jerseys to our dates, which they will wear at school all day tomorrow.

  • If I buy a Real Madrid jersey, can we still be friends?

  • Oh, you wore a jersey to dinner.

  • By the way, did your son like the soccer jersey?

  • So is this your soccer jersey, Roger?

  • Those football players, they get new jerseys every year.

  • I'm going to wear the Lions jersey that you bought me at the Lions Bears game.

  • 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

T-shirt
vsjersey
400 1.0

A shirt with no collar and short sleeves usually made of cotton and worn casually

is used as part of sports uniforms and typically knitted
tee shirt
vsjersey
7 1.0

A casual shirt with short sleeves that fits close to the body

is used as part of a sports uniform and often knitted

Compounds

4 8.9

A woman from New Jersey who is often bold, fashionable, and outspoken

An island in the English Channel near the coast of France that is a British Crown dependency

Jersey elm
  • Specialized
7.7

A type of English elm grown for upright branches and broader leaves

A small fern from Central and South America that lives for only one season

A plant from Jersey with bright purple flowers often grown in gardens

8.8

A small bushy pine tree from the eastern United States with twisted branches and short needles in pairs

How Tight

jersey
101 2.4
T-shirt
400 1.0
sweater
421 1.0
coat
957 1.0

Surface Forms

jersey singular
jerseys plural

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.