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- noun Plural form of
shirttail .
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Examples
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Even though the new policy produced endless squabbling over little things like tucking in shirttails, one teacher explained, It could have been anything.
John Thompson: Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors John Thompson 2011
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We located him sitting with a bunch of boys, collars unbuttoned, ties askew, shirttails hanging half out.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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We located him sitting with a bunch of boys, collars unbuttoned, ties askew, shirttails hanging half out.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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Even though the new policy produced endless squabbling over little things like tucking in shirttails, one teacher explained, It could have been anything.
John Thompson: Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors John Thompson 2011
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He was a leader of people, and I hung onto his shirttails.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The 95-Year-Old Spring Chicken Nancy Ruhling 2011
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One had his shirttails out and bright red hair with loosening corkscrew side-locks.
Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011
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One had his shirttails out and bright red hair with loosening corkscrew side-locks.
Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011
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On the other hand, I had learned to tuck in my shirttails by the age of nine and could walk past a row of automatic faucets without challenging myself to get all of them streaming at once.
Under the Buttonwood Tree (Excerpt) Joshua Moses 2011
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He was a leader of people, and I hung onto his shirttails.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The 95-Year-Old Spring Chicken Nancy Ruhling 2011
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Oh. Aside from the untucked shirttails and hipster messenger bags, this is our first indication that "Rubicon" is set in the relative present, with all its attendant fixations on conspiracy, deceit, terror and notions of shadow governments of the Code Orange era.
Code Dread: AMC's 'Rubicon' crosses into delectably dangerous territory 2010
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