butt-huggers

Noun

butt-huggers pl (plural only)

1. (Canada, US, plural, plural-only, slang, vulgar) Men's briefs; underwear.
   • She left a note on Ray's butt-huggers saying, 'Buy new underwear.'2002, Bryan Richards, Triopia and the Burden of Excess, →ISBN, page 112
   • If you're wondering who to thank for the sight of Will Ferrell struggling through a psychotic episode on a speedway wearing only his butt huggers, wonder no more.2010, Todd Aaron Jensen, On Gratitude, →ISBN, page 139
2. (Canada, US, plural, plural-only, slang) Skin-tight shorts.
   • Eva, for example, reveals how the uniform is a status symbol, but also how the uniform presupposes a certain body: I love the butt-huggers. I convinced my high school team to get them because I saw the college kids wearing them, people in my state were wearing them, the good teams, like high-status...1999, Jeffery Sobal, Donna Maurer, Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness, →ISBN
   • She must be a knockout in the patent leather butt-huggers and spiked heels.2006, Ray Bates, Blue Butterfly: A Detective John Bowers Mystery, →ISBN, page 115