Meanings
alternative shark-bite · alternative sharkbite
- not comparablefashionHaving a hemline that curves inward in a deep, symmetrical vee.
She'd changed her long-sleeved shirt three times before settling on a paisley print one with a shark bite hem.
2018, Sonya Weiss, The Firefighter's Perfect Plan, unnumbered page2 more examples
She didn't look like the other nurses, with her red shark-bite top, impractical heels, and frosted Bardot bun.
2018, Lina Chern, "Filigree", Black Fox Literary Magazine, Winter 2018, pages 96-97Patti was tall and slender with a halo of shiny curls, and today she was wearing red glasses, little round ones that reminded me of John Lennon and matched her shark-bite tunic.
2019, G. P. Gardener, Murder at Royale Court, unnumbered page
Origin
From the resemblance of the hemline to an object which has had a large chunk bitten off by a shark.
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