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  1. shirttails: Merriam-Webster
  2. shirttails: Vocabulary.com
  3. shirttails: Wordnik
  4. shirttails: Wiktionary
  5. shirttails: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shirttail)

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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