polo shirt
noun
: a close-fitting pullover often knit shirt with short or long sleeves and turnover collar or banded neck
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Core categories such as the classic Supima cotton T-shirt, the Riviera polo shirt made famous by Daniel Craig’s James Bond, and the boxer short — famously worn in a 1985 Levi’s ad — now anchor a broader offering that includes shirting, outerwear and knitwear.
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Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2025
Meghan was seen wearing a sleeveless mid-length white dress while standing in front of Prince Harry, 41, who donned a white polo shirt and black slacks.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Lee wore a red polo shirt and an old-school New York Giants cap (repping the baseball team, not the football team).
—Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
Intriguingly, in more recent decades, political and extremist groups have shifted away from a more provocative look, like skinheads, towards a more pedestrian aesthetic involving khakis and polo shirts.
—Steve Salter, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
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Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2025
Meghan was seen wearing a sleeveless mid-length white dress while standing in front of Prince Harry, 41, who donned a white polo shirt and black slacks.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Lee wore a red polo shirt and an old-school New York Giants cap (repping the baseball team, not the football team).
—Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
Intriguingly, in more recent decades, political and extremist groups have shifted away from a more provocative look, like skinheads, towards a more pedestrian aesthetic involving khakis and polo shirts.
—Steve Salter, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for polo shirt
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“Polo shirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polo%20shirt. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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