boxer short
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] a simple boxer short type training pants with elastic waistbands rather than a complex belt or suspender apparatus and similarly, Colwell (1965) suggested using shirts with large buttons to train children to button and unbutton shirts […]
ref: 1970, Michael Charles Tucker, Use of Modified Learning Techniques with the Severely and Profoundly Mentally Retarded, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 22:
text: 1 conservative swim suit (boxer short type)
ref: 1991, Iris Acker, The Secrets to Auditioning for Commercials: On Camera with Iris Acker, Distinctive Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 103:
text: While the young men all wore boxer short-type swimsuits and walked down the runway with little fan-fare, the young women wore near invisible bikinis, some surely held in place by glue or some such trick.
ref: 1999, Pre/Text, volume 16, numbers 3–4, Department of English, Eastern Illinois University, pages P200T–P201T:
text: In it, the putative owner of a design mark consisting of a stylized boxer short-wearing skeleton sought to defeat the alleged infringer’s motion for summary judgment through declarations by his business associates that the marks in question were similar.
ref: 2000, Trademark Law Handbook, Clark Boardman, →ISBN, page 180:
text: For their third catwalk collection, Alice Shreeve and Hannah Coniam – Belle & Bunty – took the theme of ‘the morning after the night before’, as the masculine ‘boyfriend’ shirt was unabashedly worn with braces and boxer short style hotpants in tropical palm prints taken from the wallpaper of old British stately homes.
ref: 2005, International Textiles, numbers 843–846, page 92:
text: The boxer short style resembled shorts and extended to the upper thigh. […] Teenage and college boys wore two styles of swimsuits: wool knit trunks or boxer short trunks.
ref: 2008, Amy T. Peterson, editor, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History, 1900 to the Present, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 332–333:
text: “What are your plans for today?” / “Laundry,” she mumbles into my chest. “I’ve noticed your lack of boxer short wearing.” / “Easy access, baby.”
ref: 2014, Katie McGarry, Breaking the Rules, Harlequin, →ISBN:
text: Looking at their drab boxer short type navy blue bathing suits, I thought I understood what motivated their request.
ref: 2016, Mort Greer, The Whole Shebang, Lulu, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Kate lifted the loose camisole top and matching peach knickers, almost boxer short style.
ref: 2017, Ray McCarthy, Hero Genesis, Corvids Press, →ISBN:
text: The photographs captured by surfer/photographer Leroy Grannis from the 1960s show young men in loose-fitting nylon swim trunks or board shorts, boxer short-style, that fall just above the knee, or occasionally cut-off jean shorts.
ref: 2022, Sonya Abrego, Westernwear: Postwar American Fashion and Culture, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, →ISBN:
related: word: boxer-short
glosses: Attributive form of boxer shorts.
examples: text: Following the success of Klein’s designer underwear, other designers launched their own ranges, with some following Klein’s lead to produced variations of the staple white brief or traditional boxer short.
ref: 2012, Shaun Cole, The Story of Men’s Underwear, Parkstone International, →ISBN, page 105:
text: The symbolic status of the boxer short is enhanced by the various materials (workmanlike cotton or more glamorous satin) that they can be made out of and the numerous patterns that these fabrics may display: […]
ref: 2022, David Scott, Between Friends, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:
text: The top layer is made of washed silk and tape-spooled lace woven with needle-spooled lace. This one-piece woven dress is constructed from three layers of cotton, with elastic woven into it to create shape. Underneath is a boxer short.
ref: 2023, Jenny Udale, Textiles and Fashion: From Fabric Construction to Surface Treatments, 3rd edition, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, →ISBN:
glosses: Boxer shorts.