polo shirt

See also: Poloshirt

English

The basic design of a polo shirt.

A woman wearing a pink polo shirt.

From polo ‎ shirt; so called because they were initially modeled on the type of shirt worn from the 1920s by polo players.

polo shirt (plural polo shirts)

A casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar and a small number of buttons extending a short distance below the collar (and not all the way down the front of the shirt).
Synonyms: golf shirt, tennis shirt
- 2004 August 30, The New Yorker, page 38:
  […] the necessity for yet another place at which to buy a polo shirt or a pair of flip-flops may not be apparent to the town's residents […]

Not to be confused with a shirt with a polo-neck, which is a high collar covering the neck or turtleneck.

casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar

Chinese:
Mandarin: polo衫 (pōulōushān)
Czech: polokošile (cs) f, polotriko n, polo tričko n
Danish: poloskjorte c
Estonian: polosärk
Finnish: kauluksellinen t-paita; pikeepaita (fi) (such shirt made of piquet)
French: polo (fr) m
Galician: polo (gl) m
German: Poloshirt (de) n, Polohemd (de) n
Hungarian: pólóing (hu), teniszpóló
Indonesia: kaus polo
Japanese: ポロシャツ (ja) (poroshatsu)
Polish: koszulka polo f, polo (pl) n, polówka (pl) f
Portuguese: polo (pt) m
Russian: по́ло (ru) n (pólo)
Slovak: polokošeľa f
Spanish: polo (es) m, chemise f (Venezuela), chomba (es) f (Argentina), poloche f (Dominican Republic), remera (es) f (Uruguay), niqui m
Swedish: pikétröja c
Yiddish: פּאָלאָ m (polo)