Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without a shirt; hence, poor; destitute.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not having or wearing a shirt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not wearing a shirt. Having a bare torso.
  • adjective idiomatic Very poor.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

shirt +‎ -less

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