wedgie
Americannoun
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wedgies
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Often wedgies. a shoe with a wedge heel.
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Informal. the condition of having one's underpants or other clothing uncomfortably stuck between the buttocks.
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He’s an idiot, but one Vinod finds himself speaking to in a difficult moment with his other friends, and while his torturer is giving him a wedgie.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024
That is: There’s no inscribed deduction in gymnastics for getting the inevitable wedgie—but there is a deduction, sometimes hefty, for fixing your wedgie.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2021
Instead, they're something only the guy who listens to the radio broadcast of the game while actually at the game could possibly get away with sans atomic wedgie.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 11, 2018
Before every serve, Nadal pulls an imaginary wedgie out of his bottom.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2016
Anyway, Matt Sloan snuck up behind him and tried to give him a wedgie, and Tyson panicked.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
Musk was never a great fit for the dirtbag crowd, which has always been more interested in giving wedgies to self-congratulatory nerds than treating them like heroes.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2025
On what other podcast can you hear that actor Tony Sirico, who played the preening thug Paulie Walnuts, was once a nightclub bouncer and claimed to regularly give wedgies to Jimi Hendrix?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
To teach young wrestlers to avoid kinjite, the Japanese hold shokkiri – staged sumo matches in which the contestants poke eyes, pull hair, give wedgies and perform other fouls, all to comic effect.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2019
If Michigan was to finally give the wedgies rather than receive them, Saturday represented its best shot in years.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2018
She wore wedgies, loose slacks, and sweaters that were too short in the sleeves.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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