budgie smugglers

plural noun

1. slang,  men's close-fitting swimming trunks

Example Sentences

At The Gallery at Circus of Books, Jesús Clauss, 42, a studio manager for fashion designer Julia Clancey, adjusted displays for her Pride collection, arranging “budgie smugglers” — briefs-style swim bottoms — with colorful banana prints and shimmery kaftans.

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One of his predecessors, Tony Abbott, was often seen around Parliament House in cycle shorts and other activewear, and had a penchant for Speedos, known colloquially in Australia as “budgie smugglers.”

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Reflecting on the new location, Kay said: "There are certain things that Australia would've provided that Wales doesn't; a tan, and the opportunity to wear budgie smugglers."

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At one of the latter, Princess Margaret made the acquaintance of her much younger lover, Roddy Llewellyn, whom she whisked off to buy swimming trunks so tight they qualified as “budgie smugglers.”

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Tattooed tradesmen have wheeled the bins out in budgie smugglers and high heels.

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