polo shirt

American  

noun

• polo shirts
  plural

1. a short-sleeved, pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton or cottonlike knit, with a round neckband or a turnover collar.

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polo shirt British  

noun

1. a knitted cotton short-sleeved shirt with a collar and three-button opening at the neck

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• polo shirts
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of polo shirt

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

polo shirt

A man in a polo shirt bowed three times, checked his phone, then took three more bows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

I pull a brown polo shirt from an overstuffed rack and press it against me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

The teenager found some aspects of her uniform so uncomfortable that they became painful, like the embroidered logo, seams and tag on her polo shirt, her dad says.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

Red polo shirt, black pants from Kohl’s, Dashboard Confessional and Weezer echoing from the kitchen while the prep crew scrubbed down the line.

From Salon ● May 19, 2025

She sends Enrique an orange polo shirt, a pair of blue pants, a radio cassette player.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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