polo shirt
See also: Poloshirt
English edit
Etymology edit
From polo + shirt; so called because they were initially modeled on the type of shirt worn from the 1920s by polo players.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊləʊ ˌʃɜːt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊloʊ ˌʃɝt/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: po‧lo shirt
Noun edit
polo shirt (plural polo shirts)
- A casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar and a small number of buttons extending a short distance below the collar (and not all the way down the front of the shirt).
- Synonyms: golf shirt, tennis shirt
- 2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:
- […] the necessity for yet another place at which to buy a polo shirt or a pair of flip-flops may not be apparent to the town's residents […]
Usage notes edit
Not to be confused with a shirt with a polo-neck, which is a high collar covering the neck or turtleneck.
Translations edit
casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- polo shirt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “polo shirt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.