shorties
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[edit]shorties
Noun
[edit]shorties (uncountable)
- Short socks.
- 1987, Jacob Israel Biegeleisen, Make Your Job Interview a Success: A Guide for the Career-Minded Job Seeker, Prentice Hall Trade, →ISBN, page 36:
- Also for business and formal wear, knee high's are preferable to shorties so that your shanks are not exposed when crossing your legs.
- (informal) Diminutive of shorts.
- 1923 August, “Golf”, in The Playground, volume XVII, number 5, Cooperstown, N.Y.: Playground and Recreation Association of America, →OCLC, page 291, column 1:
- It is true they are pygmy clubs; just wee bits o’ things, toys. It is true that no self respecting golfer, all togged out in his shorties and tam, would deign to use them.
- 1929 July 15, Karl B. Musser, “A Tribute”, in Guernsey Breeders’ Journal, volume 36, number 2, Peterboro, N.H., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75, column 2:
- His clean white blouse was tucked neatly into his shorties that ended at the sturdy healthy legs and even the knees below were clean and bare and the smell of shoe polish was evidence enough that the school week was starting “slick and clean.”
- 1974 June 7, “I’ll Never Forget”, in The Mar News, Newtown Square, Pa.: Marple Newtown High School, page 10, column 1:
- Deb DiGregorio: A certain sophmore jumping out from behind a locker in his shorties.
- 1990, Bruce Benderson, “The Mass Production of Teenagers”, in Pretending to Say No: A Novella and Eleven Stories, New York, N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, part II, page 165:
- Miguel picked up his badge and walked to the mirror with it. Still in his shorties, he practiced whipping the case out and flipping it open.