"jockey shorts" meaning in English

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          "word": "jockeys"
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          "word": "jockey briefs"
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          "ref": "1980, William Hogan, The Quartzsite Trip, page 209",
          "text": "He had left his swimming suit at home, but going around in his jockey shorts seemed a good substitute.",
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          "ref": "2000, Charles Edward Gibb, Murder on the Cocktail Circuit, page 194",
          "text": "Back in his stateroom, sitting in his black jockey shorts, Scotty once again felt the exhaustion creep back into his body.",
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          "ref": "2011, Howard S. Rowland, Robinson Crusoe in Suburbia, page 64",
          "text": "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.",
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