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get someone's shirt out

get someone's shirt out verb: to make someone angry.

Verb

get someone's shirt out (third-person singular simple present gets someone's shirt out, present participle getting someone's shirt out, simple past got someone's shirt out, past participle got someone's shirt out or gotten someone's shirt out)

  1. (dated, slang) To make someone angry.
    • You've got his shirt out somehow, Honeybun; he'll do you a mischief. What did you say?1876, Arthur Griffiths, Lola: a Tale of the Rock, volume 1, page 19

Forms of get someone's shirt out

third-person singular presentgets someone's shirt out
present participlegetting someone's shirt out
pastgot someone's shirt out
past participlegot someone's shirt out
past participlegotten someone's shirt out

Questions about get someone's shirt out

What does get someone's shirt out mean?
Get someone's shirt out means to make someone angry.
What part of speech is get someone's shirt out?
Get someone's shirt out is a verb.
What is the past tense of get someone's shirt out?
The past tense of get someone's shirt out is got someone's shirt out.

Words near get someone's shirt out in the dictionary

  1. get someone's motor running
  2. get someone's nanny
  3. get someone's nanny-goat
  4. get someone's neurons firing
  5. get someone's number
  6. get someone's shirt out
  7. get something over with
  8. get something twisted
  9. get started
  10. get straight
  11. get stuck in

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