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shirt-front

shirt-front

See also: shirtfront

English

Verb

shirt-front (third-person singular simple present shirt-fronts, present participle shirt-fronting, simple past and past participle shirt-fronted)

  1. (sport) 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).
  2. (general) To aggressively threaten an opponent by standing toe-to-toe with them while or before verbally or physically abusing them.