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panties

panties is the plural of panty.

Meaning of panty

Noun

panty (plural panties)

  1. (in plural, obsolete) Short trousers for men, or more usually boys.
  2. (in-compounds, plural-normally) An article of clothing worn as underpants by women.
    • For, unlike old-fashioned diapers, PLAYTEX Dryper confines all wetness to the panty area; brings your baby a whole new world of comfort plus cleaner, finer protection.1952 October 13, Advertisement, Life, page 13
  3. (informal, roller derby) A helmet cover.
    • There is a special play called “Passing the Star” that allows the jammer to remove her helmet panty and hand it over to the pivot.2010, Alex Cohen, Jennifer Barbee, Down and Derby: The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby, unnumbered page

Noun

panties pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Underpants for women and girls.
    • Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 29
    • Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 12

Synonyms of panties

Words formed from panties

Phrases with panties

Questions about panties

What does panties mean?
Panties means underpants for women and girls.
What is panties the plural of?
Panties is the plural of panty.
What part of speech is panties?
Panties is a noun.

Words near panties in the dictionary

  1. pantie
  2. pantie girdle
  3. pantie girdles
  4. pantied
  5. pantieless
  6. panties
  7. Pantifa
  8. Pantigate
  9. pantihose
  10. pantihosed
  11. pantihoses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: panties (page history and authors); panty (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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