untucked

3 4.9

Clothing with the bottom hanging outside the waist

adjective
/ʌnˈtʌkt/

: desatado

During the picnic, he decided to leave his shirt untucked for a more casual look.
an untucked shirt
an untucked shirttail
jeans and untucked

Untuck It makes shirts designed to be worn untucked.

Examples

He wore old jeans and an untucked chamois shirt.

Fiction book (1999)
That means I need to conceal with a t-shirt, polo shirt, light jacket, sports coat, or maybe an untucked button-up most of the time.

Blog text (24)
Look at my untucked shirt.

Blockers (2018)
- It looks stupid untucked.

Blockers (2018)
So despite the pattern, you won't be wearing this untucked.

Blog text (18)
Still perspiring, she shed her jacket and stood up, realizing as she did so that her blouse had become untucked.

Fiction book (1998)
She's wearing her weekend khakis, bare feet, and an untucked plaid shirt.

Fiction book (1990)
He wore baggy gray pants and an untucked pullover shirt.

Fiction book (1991)
He could see Trevor's untucked shirttail flapping out behind him as he ran.

Fiction book (1999)
He wore a battered trenchcoat to work, baggy khakis, and my impression is of untucked shirts and deli sandwich wrappers trailing from pockets.

Fiction book (2001)

Antonyms

tucked

2.3

Clothing or bedding folded and held neatly in place

Surface Forms

untucked positive

Morphology

untucked = tucked (transparent) = un + tuck + ed

Applying the negative prefix 'un-' to the adjectival/past-participle 'tucked' yields the straightforward meaning 'not tucked'.

Etymology

The word untucked is made of un- meaning 'not' and tucked, from tuck meaning 'to fold in'. So untucked means 'not folded in', like a shirt left loose outside your trousers or a blanket that has come loose.