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nut huggers

nut huggers noun: men's swimming briefs, tight-fitting jeans or similar, especially tight, lower-body garments.

Noun

nut huggers pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang, vulgar) Men's swimming briefs, tight-fitting jeans or similar, especially tight, lower-body garments.

Origin of nut huggers

So-called due to their propensity to compress (hug) the nuts (testicles).

Questions about nut huggers

What does nut huggers mean?
Nut huggers means men's swimming briefs, tight-fitting jeans or similar, especially tight, lower-body garments.
What part of speech is nut huggers?
Nut huggers is a noun.

Words near nut huggers in the dictionary

  1. nut head
  2. nut heads
  3. nut house
  4. nut houses
  5. nut hugger
  6. nut huggers
  7. nut job
  8. nut jobs
  9. nut lettuce
  10. nut loaf
  11. nut loaves

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