A-shirt

English

A man wearing an A-shirt

Noun

A-shirt (plural A-shirts)

1. An athletic shirt or a similarly cut undershirt.
   • 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     T sits up & pulls a sleeveless A-shirt on--one of the sexiest garments I know.

   • 2019, Dan Cushman, Brian Townsley, Frederick Nebel, Black Mass (Spring 2018):

     Sonny had removed his jacket and collared shirt and sat in his A-shirt and trousers with a Lucky Strike behind his ear.

Synonyms

• (athletic shirt): beater, wife beater, Guinea tee, diego tee, dago tee, vest (UK), string vest (UK), semmit (Scots), singlet (Australia)

Translations

athletic shirt

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 運動背心／运动背心 (yùndòng bèixīn)

• Czech: tílko (cs) n
• French: marcel (fr) m, maillot (fr) m

See also

• Sleeveless shirt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ishtar, Trisha