Usually means: Fabric extension at shirt's bottom.
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  1. shirttail: Merriam-Webster
  2. shirttail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shirttail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shirttail: Vocabulary.com
  5. shirttail: Wordnik
  6. shirttail: Wiktionary
  7. shirttail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. shirttail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. shirttail: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. shirttail: Dictionary.com
  11. shirttail: Rhymezone
  12. shirttail: FreeDictionary.org
  13. shirttail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. shirttail: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  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.
noun:  (by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
noun:  A tenuous connection.
noun:  A distant kinship.
noun:  A small portion
noun:  Something small and unimportant.

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