SHIRTFRONT

dickey, dickie, dicky, shirtfront

(noun) a man’s detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt

shirtfront

(noun) the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket); “he had spilled catsup on his shirtfront”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

shirtfront (plural shirtfronts)

The front part of a shirt.

A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.

(cricket) A pitch that is easy to bat on.

(Australian rules football) A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.

(real estate, slang) An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.

Verb

shirtfront (third-person singular simple present shirtfronts, present participle shirtfronting, simple past and past participle shirtfronted)

(transitive, AU, politics) To confront in a threatening manner.

Source: Wiktionary



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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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