Hawaiian shirt

noun

: a usually short-sleeved sport shirt with a colorful pattern

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Years before that, though, the first-ever Sexiest Man Alive wore a lot of Hawaiian shirts as Freddy Shoop in 1987's Summer School. Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024 Charles seems to have a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap? Alice Burton, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024 The Anduril cofounder certainly looks like a new kind of defense tech executive, wearing his customary Hawaiian shirt and sporting a bold hairstyle combo of both a mullet and a goatee. Will Knight, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024 The former child star's red carpet style has come a long way from his days in pint-sized Hawaiian shirts. Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for Hawaiian shirt 

Word History

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Hawaiian shirt was in 1952

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“Hawaiian shirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hawaiian%20shirt. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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