jockey pants

English

Noun

jockey pants pl (plural only)

1. (UK) Synonym of jockey shorts
   • 1995, John Updike, Rabbit Angstrom The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, page 86:

     In frightened haste he takes clean Jockey pants, T-shirts, and socks from a drawer, three shirts in cellophane and blue cardboard from another, a pair of laundered suntans from a third, draws his two suits and a sports shirt from the closet, and wraps the smaller clothing in the suits to form a bundle he can carry.

Synonyms

• Y-fronts
• jocks
• See Thesaurus:underwear