Starkers

//ˈstɑːkəz// adj, slang

adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Completely nude. British, not-comparable, slang

    "Entering the bathroom, I found Bill there, still starkers after his bath."

  2. 2
    Stark raving mad. informal, not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    (British informal) stark naked wordnet

Synonyms

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bakedbananasbarkingbarking madbarmybatchy

Example

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"However, Vince, on Jen's house's veranda, was naked from the waist up. He might even have been starkers!"

Etymology

* "naked": British slang, from 1923, combining (like a popular etymology) two meanings of stark (“strong, utterly; barren”) with stark naked, which is from Old English steort (“tail”), referring to the tail-end (as in butt-naked). * "crazy": stark (“shortening of stark raving mad”) + -ers

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