shirttail
the part of a shirt below the waistline.
Journalism. a brief item added at the end of a related newspaper story.: Compare follow-up (def. 3b).
quite young and immature in behavior.
Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. of distant relation, especially by marriage: some shirttail cousins I'd never met.
Informal. to append or add (an item) to a discussion or writing: The tariff concessions were shirttailed onto the trade bill.
Origin of shirttail
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How to use shirttail in a sentence
We then and there decided, almost unanimously, to follow shirttail.
Gold | Stewart WhiteThen Penelope hobbled up and pulled Mark's shirttail out of his trousers.
You Too Can Be A Millionaire | Noel Miller LoomisTom opened one of the containers of water and dipped his shirttail into it.
Stand by for Mars! | Carey Rockwell
British Dictionary definitions for shirt-tail
the part of a shirt that extends below the waist
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