boxer-short
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxer short
Senses: examples: text: Does he seem the boxer-short type or is he perhaps a kanga man?
ref: 1998, Uganda Review, volume 8, Selum Publications, page 18:
text: The boxer-short style, on the other hand, remains a wise choice regardless, since it’s almost impossible to look bad in something that covers so much territory so discreetly.
ref: 2000, Ana Veciana-Suarez, Birthday Parties in Heaven: Thoughts on Love, Life, Grief, and Other Matters of the Heart, Plume, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Bound, too, plays on the Gen-X aesthetic both through its hip neo-noir look as well as its depiction of the masculine, boyish, boxer-short wearing, tattooed, pouty, tough dyke looking like a low-rent Calvin Klein ad.
ref: 2001, Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 165:
text: Glimpses of Dad’s nakedness under bathrobe or up boxer-short leg became illicit, both repellent and magnetic.
ref: 2004, Judith Levine, Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self, Free Press, →ISBN, page 146:
text: They had parallel legs joined to a boxer-short design.
ref: 2004, Pat Gilbert, Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash, Hachette Books, →ISBN, page 169:
text: […] as there isn’t a whole lot of narrative here, mostly just the DeGrate and Hailey siblings posing, glaring, finger-pointing, and ripping off their shirts to reveal their washboard abs and boxer-short waistbands.
ref: 2005, The Video Librarian, volume 20, page 86:
text: A typical female swimsuit is brief and form fitting, while males normally wear large, shapeless, boxer-short type swimwear.
ref: 2008, David L. Carlson, I Can’t Believe I Did That!: Instinctive Behavior in Humans, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 52:
text: Around 1940, the looser boxer-short style, usually boldly patterned, became another popular alternative, with matching short-sleeved sports shirts worn as cover-ups.
ref: 2009, Susan Ward, “Swimwear”, in Valerie Steele, editor, The Berg Companion to Fashion, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, published 2019, →ISBN, page 672, column 1:
text: Swimming trunks, that’s all he had on; blue ones, boxer-short style, with an orange “F” on them.
ref: 2010, Rick Wilber, Rum Point: A Baseball Novel, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 13:
text: […] suggests to Jomier that this too – this dislike of heat and glare and heat rash and sand in his socks – his grey pink-spotted body in boxer-short trunks next to Max’s bronzed hirsute torso on the puttering caique – was part of the ‘not blame exactly . . .’ – the qualities that were not his fault but surely contributed to her mother’s disenchantment.
ref: 2010, Piers Paul Read, The Misogynist, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN, page 155:
text: Kicked his bare, boxer-short legs apart, taking Poe’s movement from him.
ref: 2013, Frank Bill, Donnybrook, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 133:
text: As we reached the river bank, I noted with dread that everyone was swimming in their boxer-short-type underwear.
ref: 2016, Steve Howard, Modern Muslims: A Sudan Memoir, Ohio University Press, →ISBN:
text: So I put on my Speedo (boxer-short style, not “Ew, gross” style) and went downstairs.
ref: 2017, Todd Barry, Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg: One Comedian’s Tour of Not-Quite-the-Biggest Cities in the World, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 241:
text: The swimsuit she had brought with her, a drab high-necked Speedo style, had long been discarded as too droopy and big for her slimmer figure; she had splurged last month – over a hundred pounds! – for a mauve and white polkadot Miracle Suit at Debenhams. It was low-cut to show off her breasts, gathered and draped tactfully over her tummy, the legs cut in a boxer-short style to help conceal the cellulite on her bottom.
ref: 2017, Rebecca Chance, Killer Affair, Pan Books, →ISBN:
text: In addition, Thinx, who make padded underwear for menstruation, also have a line of boxer-short style products for trans-identified females.
ref: 2020, Katie Roche, 2+2=5: How The Transgender Craze is Redefining Reality:
glosses: Attributive form of boxer shorts.