SHIRTFRONT

PRONUNCIATION: (SHUHRT-fruhnt)

MEANING: noun: 1. The front of a shirt.
2. A high, front-on collision or bump on an opponent.
3. An aggressive direct confrontation.
verb tr.: 1. To run at and collide with someone.
2. To confront someone aggressively.

ETYMOLOGY: From shirt, from Old English scyrte + front, from Old French front (forehead), from Latin frons (forehead, front). Earliest documented use: noun 1808, verb 1952.
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SHIRTFROND - an upper-body garment torn to tatters that flutter in the wind like a fern

SHIREFRONT - the first land you see entering Hobbit territory

SHIFT-FRONT - 1. the first half of one's time on duty; 2. Reverse, Neutral, and Third gears on a standard automobile transmission sequence (more commonly lly described an an "H")