# T-shirt

Pronunciation: say "TEE-shurt" US /ˈtiːʃɚt/, UK /ˈtiːʃɜːt/

## Noun

1. A lightweight collarless shirt without buttons, usually short-sleeved and made of cotton, often printed with a picture or slogan.
   - Simple: A light cotton shirt with short sleeves, no collar, and no buttons.
   - _She designed a T-shirt with a bold silk-screened slogan across the chest._
   - _Vendors outside the stadium hawked cheap cotton T-shirts to arriving fans._

## Noun

2. A garment worn next to the skin underneath a shirt or other outer clothing. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A thin shirt worn next to the skin, under your other clothes.
   - _In those days a man who walked out to the mailbox in his T-shirt was considered half dressed._
   - _The store stacked its cotton T-shirts in packs of three beside the boxer shorts and socks._

## Origin

The name comes from the shirt's shape, which resembles the letter T, and dates from the 1920s.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/t-shirt (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).