wedgies
- plural of wedgie.
Example Sentences
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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
Over the course of nine books, the boys and the Captain have battled talking toilets, aliens disguised as nasty lunch-ladies, supersonic wedgies, evil robots, Professor Tinkletrousers, and the daily threat of lifelong detention.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2012
We got some fried chicken and some wedgies and some sodas.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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