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Definition of lose (one's) shirt

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Slang terms with the same meaning

Other terms relating to 'poor, poor person, homeless person':

Definitions include: a homeless woman.
Definitions include: From the stereotype that poor people (especially in the Midwestern United States) live in trailer-homes.
Definitions include: to be sad.
Definitions include: without money.
Definitions include: useless.
Definitions include: a younger punk who is homeless or pretends to be homeless.
Definitions include: to reduce expenses.
Definitions include: having been kicked out of one's residence.
Definitions include: a person who is of the red-neck, trailer trash, low morals variety.
Definitions include: a whore - i.e. a promiscuous (usually female) person, or an actual prostitute (usually female) - who is not doing well financially.
Definitions include: See also strap.
Definitions include: very broke.
Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
Definitions include: lower class people who live in trailer parks.
Definitions include: broke, out of money.

Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'lose':

Definitions include: to get rid of.
Definitions include: to be humiliated.
Definitions include: to lose progress.
Definitions include: to lose one's temper.
Definitions include: lost her virginity
Definitions include: to lose one's temper.
Definitions include: to decline in a particular skill.
Definitions include: to become extremely angry.
Definitions include: To lose one's virginity.
Definitions include: to vomit
Definitions include: to go insane.
Definitions include: southern term for losing one's temper.
Definitions include: to lose one's composure.
Definitions include: to cease regular contact with someone.
Definitions include: no matter what.

Other terms relating to 'shirt':

Definitions include: to not get angry, to stay calm.
Definitions include: someone who is likely to be martyred, often someone who's own character or role is trivial.
Definitions include: male homosexual
Definitions include: an overly formal person.
Definitions include: to shoot someone

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