ALL meanings of shirt-tail
shirt-tail
S s - noun shirt-tail the part of a shirt below the waistline. 1
- noun shirt-tail Journalism. a brief item added at the end of a related newspaper story. Compare follow-up (def 3b). 1
- adjective shirt-tail quite young and immature in behavior. 1
- adjective shirt-tail Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. of distant relation, especially by marriage: some shirttail cousins I'd never met. 1
- verb with object shirt-tail Informal. to append or add (an item) to a discussion or writing: The tariff concessions were shirttailed onto the trade bill. 1
- countable noun shirt-tail Shirt-tails are the long parts of a shirt below the waist. 0
- noun shirt-tail the part of a shirt that extends below the waist 0