Meaning of boxer-short | Babel Free

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Attributive form of boxer shorts.

attributive, form-of

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Examples

“Does he seem the boxer-short type or is he perhaps a kanga man?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Glimpses of Dad’s nakedness under bathrobe or up boxer-short leg became illicit, both repellent and magnetic.”

“They had parallel legs joined to a boxer-short design.”

“[…] 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.”

“A typical female swimsuit is brief and form fitting, while males normally wear large, shapeless, boxer-short type swimwear.”

“Around 1940, the looser boxer-short style, usually boldly patterned, became another popular alternative, with matching short-sleeved sports shirts worn as cover-ups.”

“Swimming trunks, that’s all he had on; blue ones, boxer-short style, with an orange “F” on them.”

“[…] 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.”

“Kicked his bare, boxer-short legs apart, taking Poe’s movement from him.”

“As we reached the river bank, I noted with dread that everyone was swimming in their boxer-short-type underwear.”

“So I put on my Speedo (boxer-short style, not “Ew, gross” style) and went downstairs.”

“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.”

“In addition, Thinx, who make padded underwear for menstruation, also have a line of boxer-short style products for trans-identified females.”

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