shirts and skins

The term "shirts and skins" is commonly used in informal sports to easily distinguish between two teams when uniforms are not available.

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Definition

(informal)A method of dividing players into two teams where one team keeps their shirts on and the other team plays without shirts.

During the pickup basketball game, we decided to play shirts and skins to easily tell the teams apart.
In the absence of uniforms, the soccer match was played as shirts and skins.

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