page_title: Wedgie
section_title: Variations
hierarchical_section_title: Wedgie / Variations
caption_attribution_description: English: A girl receiving a Wedgie
context_page_description: A wedgie is the act of forcibly pulling a person's underpants upwards from the back. The act is often performed as a school prank or a form of bullying.
  Wedgies are commonly featured in popular works, either as a form of low comedy or as a behaviour representative of bullying. In such works, briefs are usually the type of underpants that are worn by the victim.
context_section_description: As a prank or form of bullying, there are a number of variants to the normal, or traditional wedgie. It is impractical to list every variant, as the names and processes can be rather subjective; however, there are a few better-known variants of the wedgie.
  The melvin is a variant where the victim's underwear is pulled up from the front, to cause injury, or, at least, severe pain to the victim's genitals. The female variant is sometimes called a minerva.
  The atomic wedgie entails hoisting the waistband of the receiver's underwear up and over their heads. This form is the title character's signature prank from The Mask: The Animated Series.
  The hanging wedgie is a variant in which the victim is hung from his or her underwear, elevated above the ground.
caption: A female receiving a regular wedgie
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