underdrawers
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of underdrawers
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
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
Bumpkin In Dallas, Tex., police picked up a shaggy-haired young man they found on the street late at night, dressed only in long cotton underdrawers.
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
My sisters and I left home wearing six pairs of underdrawers, two half-slips and camisoles; several dresses one on top of the other, with pedal pushers underneath; and outside of everything an all-weather coat.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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