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underdrawers

American  
[uhn-der-drawrz] / ˈʌn dərˌdrɔrz /

noun

(used with a plural verb)
  1. an undergarment for the lower part of the body, typically covering at least part of the legs.


Etymology

Origin of underdrawers

1825–35; under- + drawers

Example Sentences

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On it appeared the picture of a pudgy male, clad only in underdrawers, squatting Gandhi-fashion at a spinning wheel.

From Time Magazine Archive

She hung out the wash in the East Room so critics would not ridicule the sight of the President's underdrawers flapping in the breeze.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even in machine-bossed Jersey City, voters clobbered an egregious clown, Democrat T. James Tumulty, a 330-lb. jolly boy with a penchant for posing for photographers in his underdrawers, and voted in Vincent J. Dellay.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were promptly supplied with pocket money by Queen Wilhelmina, and Her Majesty, with motherly solicitude, saw to it that all twelve bridesmaids were supplied with special, quick-action woolen underdrawers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since that time, Paishon had been wearing his underdrawers.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple