• Shirttail

    Origin

    shirt + tail

    Full definition of shirttail

    Noun

    shirttail

    (plural shirttails)
    1. The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
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