shirt-frontとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

shirt-front (third-person singular simple present shirt-fronts, present participle shirt-fronting, simple past and past participle shirt-fronted)

1. (sports) To knock down an opponent by colliding with them chest-to-chest (Australian rules football) or tackle them by grabbing their chest by their shirt front and wrestling them to the ground (rugby league football).
2. To aggressively threaten an opponent by standing toe to toe with them while or before verbally or physically abusing them.

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名詞

shirtfront (plural shirtfronts)

1. The front part of a shirt.
   • 2025 September 12, Jack Collins, “Why Did Men Stop Wearing Three-Piece Suits?”, in Gentleman's Gazette‎:

     In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.

2. A detachable insert that simulates the front of a shirt.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

3. (cricket) A pitch that is easy to bat on.
4. (Australian rules football) A head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground.
5. (real estate, slang) An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.
   • 1927, The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, volumes 30-32, page 100:

     It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front.

   • 1967, The Appraisal of Real Estate, page 132:

     False fronts, frequently called "shirt fronts," are futile attempts to make a small, cheap house pass for something larger and more valuable.

動詞

shirtfront (third-person singular simple present shirtfronts, present participle shirtfronting, simple past and past participle shirtfronted)

1. (transitive, Australia, politics) To confront in a threatening manner.
   • 2014, Philip Chubb, Power Failure:

     This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility.

   • 2014 October 14, “Pravda lashes Tony Abbott as 'disturbed' over threat to shirtfront Vladimir Putin”, in The Guardian‎:

     Pravda has described Tony Abbott as “a disturbed mind crying out for therapy”: after his threat to “shirtfront” the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Brisbane.