sweat shirt

A form of sweatshirt — A loose shirt, usually made of a knit fleece, for athletic wear and now often used as casual apparel.

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Meanings

nounsweat shirt (plural sweat shirts)

plural sweat shirts

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of sweatshirt.

    After that came off there was just my undershirt, stained with sweat. he smiled at it for a while and then said as he heaved himself out of the chair, "There. You should have worn that all day, just that. That has real taste. The rest of your outfit was just gilding that lily of a sweat shirt."

    1959, John Knowles, chapter 8, in A Separate Peace
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APA

sweat shirt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweat%20shirt

MLA

“sweat shirt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweat%20shirt. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sweat shirt,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweat%20shirt.

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