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shirttail definition

☆ shirt·tail (s̸hʉrt′tāl′)

noun

  1. the part of a shirt extending below the waist
  2. Slang information added, often by a different writer, at the end of a newspaper article

adjective

Informal being only distantly related a shirttail cousin

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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