eat my shorts

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Popularized by the TV series The Simpsons (1989), where it is a catchphrase of Bart Simpson.

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eat my shorts

  1. (idiomatic, chiefly US, vulgar) An irreverent rebuke or dismissal.
    • [1977, James P. Leary, The Boys from the Dome [] , page 69:
      Notre Dame boys greeted one another with "Eat It" to be answered by "Eat It Raw" or "Eat a Big One" or "Eat My Shorts," sometimes "Eat My Crusty Shorts."]
    • 1983, Roger Swaybill, Alan Ormsby, Bob Clark, Porky's II: The Next Day (motion picture):
      Mickey: You could be the biggest fairy of them all!
      Meat: Eat my shorts!
    • 1985, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club (motion picture):
      Richard Vernon: You're not fooling anyone, Bender. The next screw that falls out will be you.
      John Bender: Eat my shorts.
      Richard Vernon: What was that?
      John Bender: Eat... My... Shorts.
    • 1988, Greg Matthews, The Gold Flake Hydrant, page 232:
      Her eyes are telling me, "Eat my shorts, you precocious little fart." I definitely haven't made a friend.
    • [1996, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus! [] , page 186:
      For instance, Bart often expresses his irreverence toward authority on "The Simpsons" by exclaiming "Eat my shorts."]

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