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[ UK /ˌʌndəwˈe‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈəndɝˌwɛɹ/ ]
NOUN
  1. undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments

How To Use underwear In A Sentence

  • Claim: Men's underwear is referred to as 'BVDs' because the term is an abbreviation of the phrase 'Boy's Ventilated Drawers.' New Urban Legends
  • The "smart" in "smart underwear" refers to the fact that the printed sensors will be incorporated into logic-based biocomputing systems that will monitor biomarkers found in human sweat and tears, make autonomous diagnoses, and administer drugs. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Must make a nice change going to work wearing clothes over her underwear. The Sun
  • Instead, we decided to hang up the heavier long underwear like regular clothing and simply bundle our lighter underwear with a rubber band.
  • For a while she became an underwear model for Lejaby, but her big break came when she landed the job as hostess in the TV gameshow Wheel of Fortune.
  • In the early part of the twentieth century, the B.V.D. brand of men's underwear (notable for its front buttons and back flaps) so dominated the marketplace that 'BVDs' became a general term used to refer to any brand of similar product (i.e., lightweight, one-piece long underwear for men), and eventually to all types and brands of men's underwear as well. New Urban Legends
  • For the overnighter I pretty much took a toothbrush, my hot-water bottle and a change of underwear.
  • The four tug at slim underwear and an "X" appears on each's mouth as an explicative is bleeped out. Calvin Klein Marks Its Spot: China
  • This is why a unionized workforce is a good thing: Disney World's costumed characters have won the right to wear their own underwear to work, after years of getting crabs and scabies from the Disney-provided articles. Boing Boing: June 10, 2001 - June 16, 2001 Archives
  • She leant over and I caught a flash of pink underwear.
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