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Y-fronts en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal, plural, plural-only) Briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.
    • Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane. 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 6:
    • I did the latter, so in writing this I have put it on record that I am one of the few men who has spent Christmas Eve running across a Kentish marsh in his Y-fronts with two horses trotting after him in close company. 2013, Mike Peyton, Mike Peyton’s Floating Assets, page 4:

Relateds

bibidees · jocks · bikini briefs

Synonyms

underwear