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weirdo shirt

weirdo shirt noun: a custom T-shirt featuring a grotesque, comical monster, such as Rat Fink, often seen driving a hot rod.

Noun

weirdo shirt (plural weirdo shirts)

  1. A custom T-shirt featuring a grotesque, comical monster, such as Rat Fink, often seen driving a hot rod.
    • After having teamed up briefly with an old-time pinstripe artist [...] Roth stumbled onto what was to turn out to be a lucrative line of business in the form of his individually airbrushed ‘weirdo’ shirts. These began as commissions by car clubs, whereby Roth would letter the shirts of individual...2014 November 20, Ian Lowey, Suzie Prince, “REMEMBRANCE OF FINKS PAST: KUSTOM KULTURE AND AUTOMOTIVE ART”, in The Graphic Art of the Underground: a countercultural history
    • Roth began airbrushing and selling "Weirdo" T-shirts at car shows and in the pages of Car Craft magazine as early as July 1958. By the August 1959 issue of Car Craft "Weirdo shirts" had become a full-blown craze with Roth at the forefront of the movement.2014, Linda Cleary, “Ed “Big Daddy” Roth- “Get a bigger brush!””, in Day of the Artist

Examples of weirdo shirt in a sentence

  • Known for his outrageous, over-the-top designs he started his empire of weirdness selling “Weirdo Shirts” at custom car shows.2015 March 4, Nick Podushak, “March 4, 1932: Bid Daddy Born”, in What I See:
  • Called “Weirdo shirts,” the style caught on among enthusiasts at car shows across America in what’s known as the “Kustom Kulture scene.”2024 August 20, Unattributed, “History of Rat Fink: The Crazed, Grotesque Creation of a Hot Rod Enthusiast”, in The News Wheel:
  • On the facing page: “weirdo shirts rule!!2025 March 6, Unattributed, “393. FRANCO, Von. I Was a Teenage Monster Shirt Painter.”, in PUNKS, MONSTERS, SMUT & MADMEN, page 80:
  • By 1958, Roth was marketing weirdo shirts at car shows, plus advertising them in Car Craft magazine.Unknown, Gary Medley, “Hot Rodding’s Original Genius who put the “K” in Kustom, Ed “Daddy” Roth”, in Fuel Curve:

Forms of weirdo shirt

pluralweirdo shirts

Questions about weirdo shirt

What does weirdo shirt mean?
Weirdo shirt means a custom T-shirt featuring a grotesque, comical monster, such as Rat Fink, often seen driving a hot rod.
How do you use weirdo shirt in a sentence?
Known for his outrageous, over-the-top designs he started his empire of weirdness selling “Weirdo Shirts” at custom car shows.
What part of speech is weirdo shirt?
Weirdo shirt is a noun.
What is the plural of weirdo shirt?
The plural of weirdo shirt is weirdo shirts.

Words near weirdo shirt in the dictionary

  1. weirdlooking
  2. weirdly
  3. weirdness
  4. weirdnesses
  5. weirdo
  6. weirdo shirt
  7. weirdoes
  8. weirdometer
  9. weirdometers
  10. weirdos
  11. weirds

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