variants or less commonly tee shirt
: a collarless short-sleeved or sleeveless usually cotton undershirt
also : an outer shirt of similar design
T-shirted adjective

Examples of T-shirt in a Sentence

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Ratty pale jeans, band T-shirt. Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025 Separately, the National Football League chose Abercrombie & Fitch to be its first ever fashion partner with the retailer carrying merchandise such as mesh T-shirts and half-zip sweaters for each of the 32 NFL teams. Phil Wahba, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025 Meanwhile, British sportswear brand Lonsdale’s blocky logo on T-shirts unintentionally contained a Nazi reference. Steve Salter, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025 Tight fabrics like leggings, T-shirts, yoga pants or any fabric that is stretched against your skin, aren’t stopping mosquitoes to poke through. Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 15 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for T-shirt

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of T-shirt was in 1920

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“T-shirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/T-shirt. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

Kids Definition

T-shirt

noun
variants also tee shirt
ˈtē-ˌshərt
1
: a cotton undershirt with short sleeves and no collar
2
: a jersey outer shirt designed like a T-shirt
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