English Explanatory Dictionary

Shirtgate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A 2014 controversy in which a shirt worn by scientist Matt Taylor at an informal interview associated with the European Space Agency landing of a probe on a comet was branded sexist by some viewers on social media.

Word forms

Shirtgate

Etymology

From shirt + -gate.

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