Y-fronts
noun1
Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, Informal Briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.
- Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 6:
- I did the latter, so in writing this I have put it on record that I am one of the few men who has spent Christmas Eve running across a Kentish marsh in his Y-fronts with two horses trotting after him in close company.2013, Mike Peyton, Mike Peyton’s Floating Assets, page 4:
- Synonyms
- underwear
- Related terms
- jocks, bibidees, bikini briefs