"boxer shorts" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boxer shorts.wav Forms: boxer-short [attributive], boxer short [attributive]
Etymology: Named after the shorts worn by those who engage in boxing, as their elasticity is comparable to that of what boxers must wear for unhindered leg movement (footwork). Head templates: {{en-noun|p|attr=boxer-short|attr2=boxer short}} boxer shorts pl (plural only, attributive boxer-short or boxer short)
  1. Shorts worn as underwear by men. Wikipedia link: boxer shorts Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Underwear Synonyms: boxer short [uncommon] Derived forms: boxers, boxer briefs Translations (underwear): bokserbroek (Afrikaans), سِروال (sirwāl) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), بوكسر (bōksar) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), 平角褲 (Chinese Mandarin), 平角裤 (píngjiǎokù) (Chinese Mandarin), 四角褲 (Chinese Mandarin), 四角裤 (sìjiǎokù) (Chinese Mandarin), boxerky [feminine, plural] (Czech), boxershort [masculine] (Dutch), boxer [masculine] (Dutch), bokserit [plural] (Finnish), caleçon [masculine] (French), bóxer [masculine] (Galician), Boxershorts [feminine] (German), fobhríste dornálaí [masculine] (Irish), boxeurs [masculine, plural] (Norman), bokserki [nonvirile] (Polish), samba-canção [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), boxers [Portugal, masculine, plural] (Portuguese), kăl sŏng (Rade), семе́йные (seméjnyje) [plural] (Russian), бо̏ксерице [Cyrillic, feminine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), bȍkserice [Roman, feminine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), bóxer [masculine] (Spanish), boxershorts (Swedish), boxerkalsonger [plural] (Swedish), boxer [common-gender, plural, singular] (Swedish), baksır (Turkish), paçalı don (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "seméjnyje",
      "sense": "underwear",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "семе́йные"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "underwear",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "бо̏ксерице"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "underwear",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "bȍkserice"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "underwear",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bóxer"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "underwear",
      "word": "boxershorts"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "underwear",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "boxerkalsonger"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "underwear",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender",
        "plural",
        "singular"
      ],
      "word": "boxer"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "underwear",
      "word": "baksır"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "underwear",
      "word": "paçalı don"
    }
  ],
  "word": "boxer shorts"
}

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