Meaning of Y-fronts | Babel Free

Definitions

Men's or boys' briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.

Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal, plural, plural-only

Examples

“Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.”

“I did the latter, so in writing this I have put it on record that I am one of the few men who has spent Christmas Eve running across a Kentish marsh in his Y-fronts with two horses trotting after him in close company.”

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