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Budgie smugglers

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A style of tightfitting men's swimming costume cut like underwear briefs that covers the buttocks and groin but not the legs and reveals the bulge of the genitals; especially worn in surf lifesaving and in swimming races. Australia, New-Zealand, UK, informal, plural, plural-only

    "Roughly, the rule goes: if you have just swum, are planning to swim soon or are reasonably proximate to a place where others are swimming, then your budgie smugglers are perfectly acceptable."

  2. 2
    plural of budgie smuggler (“small bag attached to the belt”) form-of, plural

Etymology

Etymology 1

A jocular reference to a man's tight-fitting swimming costume or swimsuit appearing as if he has a budgerigar concealed inside it, i.e. his bulging genitals.

Etymology 2

A jocular reference to a man's tight-fitting swimming costume or swimsuit appearing as if he has a budgerigar concealed inside it, i.e. his bulging genitals.

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