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