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board-shorted

board-shorted adjective: wearing board shorts.

Adjective

board-shorted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing board shorts.
    • By the time the men’s final was under way an estimated 25,000 bikini-clad and board-shorted surf lovers were there to watch.1985 November 25, Michael Cockerill, “The day Steel City ruled the waves”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 46,149, page 48
    • She greeted the bikini-clad and board-shorted onlookers politely between poses for photographs that apparently were destined for a weekly magazine.1988 January 6, Wendy Tuohy, “Still a place to be seen and overheard”, in The Age, number 41,374, page 8

Origin of board-shorted

From board shorts + -ed.

Questions about board-shorted

What does board-shorted mean?
Board-shorted means wearing board shorts.
What part of speech is board-shorted?
Board-shorted is an adjective.

Words near board-shorted in the dictionary

  1. board-gamer
  2. board-gamers
  3. board-games
  4. board-room
  5. board-rooms
  6. board-shorted
  7. boardable
  8. boardcard
  9. boardcards
  10. boarded
  11. boarded out

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