shirttail
noun
- 1
The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
- 2
(by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
- 3
A tenuous connection.
- 4
A distant kinship.
- 5
A small portion
- 6
Something small and unimportant.
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