"jim-jam" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002, Liz Jensen, War Crimes for the Home, Bloomsbury Publishing, published June 2010",
          "text": "[…] when I lift back the cover which is a nice bedspread, lilac and purple with little flowers, girly you’d say for a man, I see he’s just got his jim-jam top on but no bottoms, the dirty old monkey, […]",
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          "ref": "2007, Duncan McLaren, Looking for Enid: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton, Portobello Books, page 280",
          "text": "And some mornings she wakes up with just her jim-jam bottoms on, wanting to be a dog.",
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          "ref": "2009, Maureen Carter, chapter 14, in Blood Money, Crème de la Crime",
          "text": "Her Snoopy jim-jam bottoms were at half mast; she hauled them up with one hand, concerned gaze covertly raking the teenager’s damaged face.",
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          "ref": "2011, Piper Maitland, Acquainted With the Night, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books",
          "text": "He peeled up the jim-jam top. The movement set her creamy breasts to quivering.",
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          "ref": "2011, Jack Sheffield, Please Sir!, Transworld Publishers, page 270",
          "text": "‘Well, Mr Sheffield,’ he said mournfully, ‘ah get pains in m’back when ah put mi jim-jam bottoms on at bedtime.’",
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          "ref": "2019, Dreda Say Mitchell [professional name; Louise Emma Joseph], Spare Room, Bloodhound Books",
          "text": "At the toilet I reach under my cardigan, start to pull my pyjama bottoms down… and the shower curtain swishes back. With a cry of alarm, my jim-jam bottoms drop to my knees as I fall sideways heavily into the wall. […] Delicate areas reminds me that Martha and Jack are no doubt in their birthday suits in the bath, and my jim-jam bottoms are still down.",
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          "ref": "2020, Stephen Box, The Odd Patients, Xlibris",
          "text": "Before we do, I want you to remove your jim-jam bottoms, so you’re fully exposed.",
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          "ref": "2021, Darragh McManus, “Diary of an Expedition To Leave My Bed and Venture Downstairs To Find Sustenance in the Form of Coffee and Biscuits”, in Brevity Is the Soul: Wit from Lockdown Ireland, Liberties Press",
          "text": "Travelling light is essential, so I shall only bring what I bear on my person – thick socks, jim-jam pants, a T-shirt with a rude word on the front – and this diary, as testament to my expedition, and written valediction should the journey go ill.",
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          "ref": "2002, Liz Jensen, War Crimes for the Home, Bloomsbury Publishing, published June 2010",
          "text": "[…] when I lift back the cover which is a nice bedspread, lilac and purple with little flowers, girly you’d say for a man, I see he’s just got his jim-jam top on but no bottoms, the dirty old monkey, […]",
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          "ref": "2009, Maureen Carter, chapter 14, in Blood Money, Crème de la Crime",
          "text": "Her Snoopy jim-jam bottoms were at half mast; she hauled them up with one hand, concerned gaze covertly raking the teenager’s damaged face.",
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          "text": "At the toilet I reach under my cardigan, start to pull my pyjama bottoms down… and the shower curtain swishes back. With a cry of alarm, my jim-jam bottoms drop to my knees as I fall sideways heavily into the wall. […] Delicate areas reminds me that Martha and Jack are no doubt in their birthday suits in the bath, and my jim-jam bottoms are still down.",
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          "text": "Travelling light is essential, so I shall only bring what I bear on my person – thick socks, jim-jam pants, a T-shirt with a rude word on the front – and this diary, as testament to my expedition, and written valediction should the journey go ill.",
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