"boxer-short" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{head|en|noun|head=boxer-short}} boxer-short
  1. attributive form of boxer shorts Tags: attributive, form-of Form of: boxer shorts Synonyms: boxer short
    Sense id: en-boxer-short-en-noun-fNfX6UPu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "The boxer-short style, on the other hand, remains a wise choice regardless, since it’s almost impossible to look bad in something that covers so much territory so discreetly.",
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          "ref": "2001, Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 165:",
          "text": "Bound, too, plays on the Gen-X aesthetic both through its hip neo-noir look as well as its depiction of the masculine, boyish, boxer-short wearing, tattooed, pouty, tough dyke looking like a low-rent Calvin Klein ad.",
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          "ref": "2004, Judith Levine, Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self, Free Press, →ISBN, page 146:",
          "text": "Glimpses of Dad’s nakedness under bathrobe or up boxer-short leg became illicit, both repellent and magnetic.",
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          "ref": "2004, Pat Gilbert, Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash, Hachette Books, →ISBN, page 169:",
          "text": "They had parallel legs joined to a boxer-short design.",
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          "ref": "2005, The Video Librarian, volume 20, page 86:",
          "text": "[…] as there isn’t a whole lot of narrative here, mostly just the DeGrate and Hailey siblings posing, glaring, finger-pointing, and ripping off their shirts to reveal their washboard abs and boxer-short waistbands.",
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          "ref": "2008, David L. Carlson, I Can’t Believe I Did That!: Instinctive Behavior in Humans, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 52:",
          "text": "A typical female swimsuit is brief and form fitting, while males normally wear large, shapeless, boxer-short type swimwear.",
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          "ref": "2009, Susan Ward, “Swimwear”, in Valerie Steele, editor, The Berg Companion to Fashion, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, published 2019, →ISBN, page 672, column 1:",
          "text": "Around 1940, the looser boxer-short style, usually boldly patterned, became another popular alternative, with matching short-sleeved sports shirts worn as cover-ups.",
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          "ref": "2010, Rick Wilber, Rum Point: A Baseball Novel, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "Swimming trunks, that’s all he had on; blue ones, boxer-short style, with an orange “F” on them.",
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          "ref": "2010, Piers Paul Read, The Misogynist, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN, page 155:",
          "text": "[…] suggests to Jomier that this too – this dislike of heat and glare and heat rash and sand in his socks – his grey pink-spotted body in boxer-short trunks next to Max’s bronzed hirsute torso on the puttering caique – was part of the ‘not blame exactly . . .’ – the qualities that were not his fault but surely contributed to her mother’s disenchantment.",
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          "ref": "2013, Frank Bill, Donnybrook, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 133:",
          "text": "Kicked his bare, boxer-short legs apart, taking Poe’s movement from him.",
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          "ref": "2016, Steve Howard, Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir, Ohio University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "As we reached the river bank, I noted with dread that everyone was swimming in their boxer-short-type underwear.",
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          "ref": "2017, Todd Barry, Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg: One Comedian’s Tour of Not-Quite-the-Biggest Cities in the World, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 241:",
          "text": "So I put on my Speedo (boxer-short style, not “Ew, gross” style) and went downstairs.",
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          "ref": "2017, Rebecca Chance, Killer Affair, Pan Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The swimsuit she had brought with her, a drab high-necked Speedo style, had long been discarded as too droopy and big for her slimmer figure; she had splurged last month – over a hundred pounds! – for a mauve and white polkadot Miracle Suit at Debenhams. It was low-cut to show off her breasts, gathered and draped tactfully over her tummy, the legs cut in a boxer-short style to help conceal the cellulite on her bottom.",
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          "ref": "2020, Katie Roche, 2+2=5: How The Transgender Craze is Redefining Reality:",
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          "text": "The boxer-short style, on the other hand, remains a wise choice regardless, since it’s almost impossible to look bad in something that covers so much territory so discreetly.",
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          "ref": "2001, Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 165:",
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          "ref": "2010, Piers Paul Read, The Misogynist, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN, page 155:",
          "text": "[…] suggests to Jomier that this too – this dislike of heat and glare and heat rash and sand in his socks – his grey pink-spotted body in boxer-short trunks next to Max’s bronzed hirsute torso on the puttering caique – was part of the ‘not blame exactly . . .’ – the qualities that were not his fault but surely contributed to her mother’s disenchantment.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2016, Steve Howard, Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir, Ohio University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "As we reached the river bank, I noted with dread that everyone was swimming in their boxer-short-type underwear.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2017, Todd Barry, Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg: One Comedian’s Tour of Not-Quite-the-Biggest Cities in the World, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 241:",
          "text": "So I put on my Speedo (boxer-short style, not “Ew, gross” style) and went downstairs.",
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