Shreddies

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Underwear. British, plural, plural-only, slang

    "1995, Joe Simpson, This Game of Ghosts, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, As Mark came out of the bathroom, I remembered my underpants. ¶ ‘Hey Mark, have you got my shreddies?’"

Synonyms

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skivviesunderwearunderwear

Example

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"1995, Joe Simpson, This Game of Ghosts, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, As Mark came out of the bathroom, I remembered my underpants. ¶ ‘Hey Mark, have you got my shreddies?’"

Etymology

From shreddy (“consisting of shreds”) + -ies (plural suffix for nouns ending in -y).

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