shirttail

IPA: ʃˈɝtteɪɫ

The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
(by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
A tenuous connection.
A distant kinship.
A small portion
Something small and unimportant.

Examples of "shirttail" in Sentences

The cutter, journal, and shirttail can then be lifted from the tool.
Then he dropped down, tucked his shirttail, and sat back in his chair.
A wedge shaped boss of the shirttail faces the wall of the bore being opened.
Mike Stone/Reuters Mavericks owner Mark Cuban polished the championship trophy with his shirttail.
When Maddy Cohan reached him, she noticed his hand trembling as he wiped his glasses with his shirttail.
Planned grosgrain ribbon inside the hem made the "tennis tail"—a longer back shirttail for easy tucking—curl up.
Chas's grandpa and mine were some kind of shirttail second cousins with at least one "removed" in there somewhere.
WEINER: Oh, a shirttail is a little additional story of three paragraphs or so at the end of a larger newspaper story.
Jordan's shorts aren't worn so low that they look like they are falling off as is the fashion of the day, and his shirttail is always neatly tucked in.
And on Wednesday, a ragged six-foot-tall guy in shorts with his shirttail out—Sacca—would go to some double-wide trailer where the development people worked.
For example, I did a dish of shirttail grouse with farro, sunflower seeds, malt vinegar, vetch flowers and a rose hip glaze -- the grouse we'd shot had been gorging on vetch and rose hips, so it seemed appropriate.