Meaning of Drawers | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Clothing worn on the legs, especially that worn next to the skin, such as hose or breeches.
   archaic, plural, plural-only
2. Underpants, especially long underpants.
   dated, informal, plural, plural-only, regional
3. Any clothing covering the legs, such as shorts, trousers, or tights.
   plural, plural-only, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Question⟳. Where did they strike⟳ you? Answer⟳. Struck me in the face⟳ once, and struck four times across the legs. Question⟳.Was that after you had taken your drawers off, or before? Answer⟳. After I had taken my drawers off.”

“They were armed and I was in my drawers still half asleep.”

““It’s really aggressive,” Eliahu said of the incident. “While it was happening in real time, I thought it was a set⟳ up or a prank. Then it was clear they weren’t working together. I just felt bad. The Naked Cowboy he was just trying to keep⟳ his drawers up.””

“Aside from ridiculing women for their relationships with "O-keys," standing for American and British soldiers, the poem humorously asked them to wash⟳ long johns for Polish men because otherwise "UNRA would laugh⟳ seeing them wash⟳ their drawers" and they would not be clean⟳ when they come⟳ to make⟳ advances.”

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