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boy shorts

boy shorts is the alternative form of boyshorts.

Meaning of boyshorts

Noun

boyshorts pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A female undergarment that covers the hips like a pair of shorts.
    • The only viable alternative, one that my daughter favored, was an item called boyshorts, a low-riding pair of short shorts loosely, or should I say tightly, based on Britney's stagewear.2003 October 6, Claudia Wallis, “The thing about thongs”, in Time
    Synonyms:
    booty shorts

Questions about boy shorts

What is boy shorts the alternative form of?
Boy shorts is the alternative form of boyshorts.

Words near boy shorts in the dictionary

  1. boy racers
  2. boy scout
  3. Boy Scouting
  4. boy scoutish
  5. boy scouts
  6. boy shorts
  7. boy talk
  8. boy toy
  9. boy toys
  10. boy wonder
  11. boy wonders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boy shorts (page history and authors); boyshorts (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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