jockey shorts en · NOUN
Etymology
Former trade name, from jockstrap, since they were regarded as offering a similar level of physical support.
Meanings
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(US, dated, informal, plural, plural-only) Men's or boys' briefs.
Back in his stateroom, sitting in his black jockey shorts, Scotty once again felt the exhaustion creep back into his body.
2000, Charles Edward Gibb, Murder on the Cocktail Circuit, page 194:He had left his swimming suit at home, but going around in his jockey shorts seemed a good substitute.
1980, William Hogan, The Quartzsite Trip, page 209:In my jockey shorts I quickly tiptoed on bare feet down the still corridor to embrace my beaming rosy-cheeked bedfellow before the elevator arrived.
2011, Howard S. Rowland, Robinson Crusoe in Suburbia, page 64:We sat in our jockey shorts and t-shirts drinking whiskey.
2018, C. Dale Young, The Affliction, page 14:
Deriveds
jockey briefs · jocks · jockeys
Relateds
undershorts · BVDs · Speedo · Y-fronts · boxer shorts