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

Etymology

Origin of polo shirt

First recorded in 1915–20

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

Ironically, Sir Keir Starmer had also embraced the dress-down spirit of his successor, with the outgoing PM sometimes seen in tracksuits, a Stone Island polo shirt, and Adidas trainers.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

A secondary school in Derby recently announced it will ditch its traditional uniform of a shirt, blazer and tie - in favour of a black all-weather jacket and polo shirt containing the school crest.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

We too have uniforms, though they are more oafish than dignified—ill-fitting and in an overloud combination of kelly-green pants and a blinding sunflower-yellow polo shirt.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich