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shirtfronting

shirtfronting is the present participle and gerund of shirtfront.

Meaning of shirtfront

Verb

shirtfront (third-person singular simple present shirtfronts, present participle shirtfronting, simple past and past participle shirtfronted)

  1. (Australia, transitive) To confront in a threatening manner.
    • This was a case of a deputy shirtfronting her leader with an ultimatum and forcing a decision that would come close to wrecking the government's environmental credibility.2014, Philip Chubb, Power Failure

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Questions about shirtfronting

What is shirtfronting the present participle and gerund of?
Shirtfronting is the present participle and gerund of shirtfront.

Words near shirtfronting in the dictionary

  1. shirtdressed
  2. shirtdresses
  3. shirted
  4. shirtfront
  5. shirtfronted
  6. shirtfronting
  7. shirtfronts
  8. shirtful
  9. shirtfuls
  10. Shirtgate
  11. shirtie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shirtfronting (page history and authors); shirtfront (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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