tighty whities

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From tight +‎ -y and white +‎ -y.

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tighty whities pl (plural only)

  1. (originally US, colloquial, often derogatory) Men's or boys' traditionally white briefs.
    • 1988 November 16, The Observer (Notre Dame and Saint Mary's), page 5:
      Here are 5 more reasons to hate Chris Jefford: 5 He’s the only date that’s truly from hell. 4 He THINKS that his body his cool. 3 He wants his dates to to tell him so 2 “I want to have sex”. 1 Cool guys don’t wear "tightie-whities". - Someone else who knows.
    • 1990 March 11, Chris Cleeland, “Large breasts”, in alt.sex[1] (Usenet):
      [W]hat do you females (lurkers included :-) think of boxers as opposed to the traditional Fruit-O-The-Loom/Hanes "tighty-whities"?
    • 1999, Noah Hawley, A Conspiracy of Tall Men, page 345:
      Forbes, in his tighty whities and black socks, seems an incongruous apparition against the sense of home the kitchen implies.
    • 2000, Edward Lerner, Creative Destruction, page 29:
      It would indeed be great if my red socks and my tighty whities declared themselves to my washer.
    • 2008, Justin Pinnick, Another Funny Memory, page 62:
      I brushed and flossed my teeth, and got in bed with only my tighty-whities on.
    • 2012, Alice Randall, Ada’s Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel, page 97:
      Temple was laid out with a cold. Ada hoped she hadn't brought baby Jarius's bug out to him. As soon a Ada had gotten the toilets cleaned and the soup on the stove she rubbed her daddy down with a lemon cut in half, then lowered him (wearing purple tighty whities) into a hot bath she had spiked with red pepper flakes and Tabasco. When Temple was up to his shoulders in the water, Ada gave him a shot of whisky.
    • 2016, NOFX, Jeff Alulis, NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories, page 198:
      We never had time to do laundry, so I would rinse my tighty-whiteys in the sink and hang them to dry inside the van during the next day’s ride.
    • 2021, R.J. Linteau, The Architect, page 203:
      Tiny carried a bag of nails tucked into the back of his jeans, worn low to show off his tighty whiteys.

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