get someone's shirt out

verb

To make someone angry.

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Meanings

verbget someone's shirt out (third-person singular simple present gets someone's shirt out, present participle getting someone's shirt out, simple past got someone's shirt out, past participle got someone's shirt out or gotten someone's shirt out)

present singular third person gets someone's shirt out · participle present getting someone's shirt out · past got someone's shirt out · participle past got someone's shirt out · participle past gotten someone's shirt out

  1. datedslangTo make someone angry.

    You've got his shirt out somehow, Honeybun; he'll do you a mischief. What did you say?

    1876, Arthur Griffiths, Lola: a Tale of the Rock, volume 1, page 19
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