tighty whities
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tighty whities pl (plural only)
- (originally US, colloquial, often derogatory) Men's or boys' white briefs.
- 1988 November 16, The Observer (Notre Dame and Saint Mary's), page 5:
- Here are 5 more reasons to hate Chris Jefford: 5 He’s the only date that’s truly from hell. 4 He THINKS that his body his cool. 3 He wants his dates to to tell him so 2 “I want to have sex”. 1 Cool guys don’t wear "tightie-whities". - Someone else who knows.
- 1990 March 11, Chris Cleeland, “Large breasts”, in alt.sex (Usenet):
- [W]hat do you females (lurkers included :-) think of boxers as opposed to the traditional Fruit-O-The-Loom/Hanes "tighty-whities"?
- 1999, Noah Hawley, A Conspiracy of Tall Men, page 345:
- Forbes, in his tighty whities and black socks, seems an incongruous apparition against the sense of home the kitchen implies.
- 1999, Gordon Muir Giles & Jo Clark-Wilson, Rehabilitation of the Severely Brain-injured Adult, page 77:
- While your parents may have had no other choice but to wash your tighty-whities when you were a tyke, those days are long gone.
- 2000, Edward Lerner, Creative Destruction, page 29:
- It would indeed be great if my red socks and my tighty whities declared themselves to my washer.
- 2008, Justin Pinnick, Another Funny Memory, page 62:
- I brushed and flossed my teeth, and got in bed with only my tighty-whities on.
- 2016, NOFX, Jeff Alulis, NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories, page 198:
- We never had time to do laundry, so I would rinse my tighty-whiteys in the sink and hang them to dry inside the van during the next day’s ride.
- 2021, R.J. Linteau, The Architect, page 203:
- Tiny carried a bag of nails tucked into the back of his jeans, worn low to show off his tighty whiteys.
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