Y-fronts
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (plural only, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Men's or boys' briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.
- 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 6:
- 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.
- 2013, Mike Peyton, Mike Peyton’s Floating Assets, page 4:
- 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.