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tee-shirt

tee-shirt is the alternative form of T-shirt.

Meaning of T-shirt

Noun

T-shirt (plural T-shirts)

  1. A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan.
    • Many bands make more money from T-shirt sales than from sale of tickets.
    Synonyms:
    tee
  2. (dated) An undershirt.

See all 3 meanings of t-shirt

Forms of tee-shirt

pluraltee-shirts

Questions about tee-shirt

What is tee-shirt the alternative form of?
Tee-shirt is the alternative form of T-shirt.

Words near tee-shirt in the dictionary

  1. tee-name
  2. tee-names
  3. tee-section
  4. tee-sections
  5. tee-shaped
  6. tee-shirt
  7. tee-shirts
  8. tee-shirty
  9. tee-tee
  10. tee-teed
  11. tee-teeing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tee-shirt (page history and authors); T-shirt (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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