polo shirt

See also: Poloshirt

English

Etymology

The basic design of a polo shirt.

A woman wearing a pink polo shirt.

From polo +‎ shirt; so called because they were initially modeled on the type of shirt worn from the 1920s by polo players.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊləʊ ˌʃɜːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊloʊ ˌʃɝt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: po‧lo shirt

Noun

polo shirt (plural polo shirts)

1. A casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar and a small number of buttons extending a short distance below the collar (and not all the way down the front of the shirt).

   Synonyms: golf shirt, tennis shirt

   • 2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:

     […] the necessity for yet another place at which to buy a polo shirt or a pair of flip-flops may not be apparent to the town's residents […]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with a shirt with a polo-neck, which is a high collar covering the neck or turtleneck.

Translations

casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: polo衫 (pōulōushān)

• Czech: polokošile (cs) f, polotriko n, polo tričko n
• Danish: poloskjorte c
• Estonian: polosärk
• Finnish: kauluksellinen t-paita; pikeepaita (fi) (such shirt made of piquet)
• French: polo (fr) m
• Galician: polo (gl) m
• German: Poloshirt (de) n, Polohemd (de) n
• Hungarian: pólóing (hu), teniszpóló
• Indonesia: kaus polo
• Japanese: ポロシャツ (poroshatsu)
• Polish: koszulka polo f, polo (pl) n, polówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: polo (pt) m
• Russian: по́ло (ru) n (pólo)
• Slovak: polokošeľa f
• Spanish: polo (es) m, chemise (es) f (Venezuela), chomba (es) f (Argentina), poloché f (Dominican Republic)
• Swedish: pikétröja c
• Yiddish: פּאָלאָ m (polo)

See also

• rugby shirt

Further reading

• polo shirt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “polo shirt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.