tee shirt
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- noun
- /tiː ʃɜrt/
:
camiseta
- His nylon shorts were runner's trunks, pale blue, and his maroon tee shirt said "Longmont Turkey Trot IOK."
Examples
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That's because you have a hundred tee-shirts in there.
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She's a rocker, wearing a Who tee-shirt, a mood ring, and just a little too much make-up.
Fiction book (1999) -
- Remember that tee-shirt you bought a few years back?
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Uh, I said, not me, and pulled on my tee-shirt to make them go away.
Fiction book (1994) -
I take off my tee shirt for the rest of the day.
Fiction book (1998) -
Well, your tee-shirt may say rock 'n' roll, but your breath says pepperoni, baby.
Fiction book (1999) -
If I had one, I'd wear a tee-shirt two sizes too small to accentuate it.
Fiction book (1994) -
Inside, Nayla changed into an oversized tee shirt and threw herself on her bed.
Fiction book (1998) -
Out front, two six-year-olds in Star Wars tee-shirts play tug-of-war with a Stretch Armstrong doll.
Fiction book (1999) -
On hot summer days, I prefer to wear a comfortable tee shirt and shorts.
Synonyms
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A shirt with no collar and short sleeves usually made of cotton and worn casually
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A short-sleeved cotton shirt with no collar worn for casual use
Antonyms
How Casual
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a casual short-sleeved pullover' is directly and transparently composed from 'tee' (a collarless short-sleeved shirt) and 'shirt' (an upper-body garment), so the overall sense is immediately predictable from the parts. This compound follows a straightforward English noun–noun formation (and is widely adopted across languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The compound noun tee shirt comes from the simple idea that the shirt makes the shape of the letter T when it is laid flat, so people called it a 'T' shirt. That's why tee shirt now means 'a short, casual shirt'.