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birthday suit
noun
- bare skin; nakedness:
They were sunbathing in their birthday suits.
birthday suit
noun
- informal.a state of total nakedness, as at birth
birthday suit
- To be “in one's birthday suit” is to be completely naked (as people are at birth).
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Word History and Origins
Origin of birthday suit1
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Idioms and Phrases
Nakedness, as in The doorbell rang, and here I was in my birthday suit . In 18th-century Britain this term originally referred to the clothes one wore on the king's birthday. Later it was jocularly transferred to bare skin, alluding to the condition of a newborn baby.Discover More
Example Sentences
Birthday Suit, the suit in which Adam and Eve first saw each other, and were not ashamed.
He really looked as if Apollo had sent him a birthday suit, or a wedding-garment, and was witty and lively.
I had a fellow feeling for that Mazeppa party who was tied in his birthday suit to the back of a wild horse.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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