boxer shorts

English

boxer shorts

Noun

boxer shorts pl (plural only)

Shorts worn as underwear by men.
- 1985 April 29, New York Magazine, page 28:
  The average man's wardrobe holds eight pairs of boxer shorts or briefs; the average woman's, twice as many undies.
- 2020, Feyisayo Anjorin, One Week in the Life of a Hypocrite, page 59:
  Bosun grabbed the car key on the bookshelf in his bedroom and ran to the door, only to realize at the door that he should not go to the state police headquarters in boxer shorts, socks, and this white V-neck shirt.

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underwear

Afrikaans: bokserbroek
Arabic:
Hijazi Arabic: سِروال‎ m (sirwāl), بوكسر‎ m (bōksar)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 平角褲／平角裤 (píngjiǎokù), 四角褲／四角裤 (zh) (sìjiǎokù)
Czech: boxerky (cs) f pl
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: boxershort (nl) m, boxer (nl) m
Finnish: bokserit (fi) pl
French: caleçon (fr) m
Galician: bóxer m
German: Boxershorts (de) f
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Irish: fobhríste dornálaí m
Norman: boxeurs m pl
Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: bokserki (pl) pl
Portuguese: samba-canção (pt) m (Brazil), boxers m pl (Portugal)
Rade: kăl sŏng
Russian: семейные (ru) pl (semejnyje)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бо̏ксерице f pl

Roman: bȍkserice (sh) f pl
Spanish: bóxer (es) m
Swedish: boxerkalsonger c pl, boxershorts (sv), boxer (sv) c or c pl
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: baksır, paçalı don
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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