BVDs

Definitions

Underpants; usually, men's underpants.

informal, initialism, plural, plural-only

Examples

“The dealers apparently got a big inventory and since the war all nobody seems to be buying pajamas. Learned to sleep⟳ in their ‘BVDs’ during the war years in the armed services all these young men did.”

“Thus, the light⟳ switched on, there was Einhorn in his BVDs, wasted arms freckled, grizzled hair afly from his face⟳ that was inclined to flatness, the shrewd curved nose and clipped mustache.”

“We frolicked like⟳ dolphins – Graeme and I in shorts and Bob in his B.V.D.'s – and then stretched out on the ancient waveworn shingle to let⟳ the sinking sun dry and warm us.”

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