shirt-front
shirt-front verb: to knock down an opponent by colliding with them chest-to-chest (Australian rules football) or tackle them by grabbing their chest by their shirt front and wrestling them to the ground (rugby league football).
Verb
shirt-front (third-person singular simple present shirt-fronts, present participle shirt-fronting, simple past and past participle shirt-fronted)
- To knock down an opponent by colliding with them chest-to-chest (Australian rules football) or tackle them by grabbing their chest by their shirt front and wrestling them to the ground (rugby league football).
- To aggressively threaten an opponent by standing toe to toe with them while or before verbally or physically abusing them.
shirt-front meaning in Tamil
shirt-front in Tamil
- உட்சட்டை முகப்பு
Forms of shirt-front
| third-person singular present | shirt-fronts |
|---|---|
| present participle | shirt-fronting |
| past participle | shirt-fronted |
| past | shirt-fronted |
Questions about shirt-front
- What does shirt-front mean?
- Shirt-front means to knock down an opponent by colliding with them chest-to-chest (Australian rules football) or tackle them by grabbing their chest by their shirt front and wrestling them to the ground (rugby league football).
- What is shirt-front in Tamil?
- Shirt-front in Tamil is உட்சட்டை முகப்பு. See Shirt-front meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is shirt-front?
- Shirt-front is a verb.
- What is the past tense of shirt-front?
- The past tense of shirt-front is shirt-fronted.
Words near shirt-front in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shirt-front (page history and authors); shirt-front (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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