as in news headline:
''Australian PM Tony Abbott vowed to 'shirt-front' Vladimir Putin...''
origin from the world of Australian Football or “Aussie Rules Football”, a sport more similar to rugby than football. Shirtfront’s meaning in the sport’s fan talk seems to mean:
-using your body to smash into someone who is not looking and not expecting to be smashed into, or
-to grab someone by the lapels and tell them off
.
Aussie word of the day: SHIRTFRONT
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Kuranda, Queensland, Australia
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