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shirting

shur ting

  • n  any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts
  • v  put a shirt on

  • A Japanese pilot, coasting down out of the sky, would have seen the billboards shirting brightly on the roads leading into San Francisco.
  • Spending an extra year in that grade circumvents rules against "red shirting" that limit high school eligibility to four consecutive seasons.
  • That's more hair-shirting than is necessary; the rarity of partisan bias was refreshing.
Quotes

  • Tim Brewster in SportingNews.com
    All of these freshmen have a chance,Brewster said. "The days of wholesale red-shirting are over."
  • Bill Doba in San Francisco Chronicle
    We talked to him about gray-shirting, and he was OK with it, staying home and earning some money,Doba said. "But it worked out that we could bring him in, and thank goodness we did. Coming off the bus (he) doesn't look like a Pac-10...
  • Jim Tressel in Toledo Blade
    We have had a little bit of a red-shirting discussion and you start building your special teams and who you're going to put in there, because if they play a play, it's a year,Tressel said. "And as I listen, and visualize how it may unfold,...

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