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step-in en · NOUN

Etymology

From step + in.

Meanings

1. (also, plural) An item of clothing which one steps into to put on; specifically, women's panties.
   • One of the girls hoisted her skirt suddenly, pulled and ripped at her pink step-ins and tore them to a sizeable flag; then, screaming "Ben! Ben!" she waved it wildly. 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter VII, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1951, →OCLC, book V (The Way Home: 1929–1930), page 315:
   • ‘Doc got that step-in in Memphis,’ the third said. ‘Off a damn whore.’ 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 46:

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