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UK
/ˌʌndəwˈeə/
]
[ US /ˈəndɝˌwɛɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈəndɝˌwɛɹ/ ]
NOUN
- 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.