shirtfront

See also: shirt-front

English

Etymology

shirt +‎ front

Pronunciation

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Noun

shirtfront (plural shirtfronts)

The front part of a shirt.
A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
  I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
(cricket) A term used in cricket to refer to a pitch that is easy to bat on.
(Australian rules football) A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.

Translations

the front part of a shirt

Norman: fale dé c'mînse f (Jersey)
Romanian: pieptar (ro) n

Spanish: peto (es) m

Verb

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

(transitive, Australia, politics) To confront in a threatening manner.
- 2014, Philip Chubb, Power Failure
  This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility.