butt-huggers

noun — 2 senses

butt-huggers

noun
1

Canada, US, Slang, Vulgar Men's briefs; underwear.

  • She left a note on Ray's butt-huggers saying, 'Buy new underwear.'2002, Bryan Richards, Triopia and the Burden of Excess, →ISBN, page 112:
  • If you're wondering who to thank for the sight of Will Ferrell struggling through a psychotic episode on a speedway wearing only his butt huggers, wonder no more.2010, Todd Aaron Jensen, On Gratitude, →ISBN, page 139:
2

Canada, US, Slang Skin-tight shorts.

  • Eva, for example, reveals how the uniform is a status symbol, but also how the uniform presupposes a certain body: I love the butt-huggers. I convinced my high school team to get them because I saw the college kids wearing them, people in my state were wearing them, the good teams, like high-status teams that were traditionally good had them...I mean, we had a real skinny cross country team, so nobody complained.1999, Jeffery Sobal, Donna Maurer, Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness, →ISBN:
  • She must be a knockout in the patent leather butt-huggers and spiked heels.2006, Ray Bates, Blue Butterfly: A Detective John Bowers Mystery, →ISBN, page 115:
1 more example
  • By the time our waitress (clad in those humiliating orange polyester butt-huggers for which Hooters is renowned) comes by to take our order, I am nodding my head in earnest to Badlands' personal recipe for gurgitory success.2006, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit, →ISBN:
Synonyms
nut huggers, man panties, punk panties, tighty whities

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