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bowling shirt

bowling shirt noun: a style of camp shirt, typically incorporating contrasting earth tones and simple geometric designs, sometimes made of silk, and sometimes with a single left-hand pocket and/or a small logo or monogram.

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Noun

bowling shirt (plural bowling shirts)

  1. A style of camp shirt, typically incorporating contrasting earth tones and simple geometric designs, sometimes made of silk, and sometimes with a single left-hand pocket and/or a small logo or monogram.

Forms of bowling shirt

pluralbowling shirts

Origin of bowling shirt

Traditionally worn for tenpin bowling in the United States.

Words formed from bowling shirt

Questions about bowling shirt

What does bowling shirt mean?
Bowling shirt means a style of camp shirt, typically incorporating contrasting earth tones and simple geometric designs, sometimes made of silk, and sometimes with a single left-hand pocket and/or a small logo or monogram.
What part of speech is bowling shirt?
Bowling shirt is a noun.
What is the plural of bowling shirt?
The plural of bowling shirt is bowling shirts.

Words near bowling shirt in the dictionary

  1. bowling figures
  2. bowling green
  3. bowling greens
  4. bowling out
  5. bowling over
  6. bowling shirt
  7. bowling shirts
  8. bowling shoe
  9. bowling up
  10. bowling-green
  11. bowling-shirted

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