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pum-pum shorts

pum-pum shorts noun: tight-fitting shorts.

Noun

pum-pum shorts pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) Tight-fitting shorts.
    • Yeah, in saloons we drink Boone's and battle goons 'til high noon / Bust rap tunes on flat spoons, take no shorts like poom-pooms1996, “Fu-Gee-La”, in The Score, performed by Fugees
    • “Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77

Forms of pum-pum shorts

alternative formpoom-poom shorts

Questions about pum-pum shorts

What does pum-pum shorts mean?
Pum-pum shorts means tight-fitting shorts.
What part of speech is pum-pum shorts?
Pum-pum shorts is a noun.

Words near pum-pum shorts in the dictionary

  1. Pulwama District
  2. pulwar
  3. pulwars
  4. pulza oil
  5. pum-pum
  6. pum-pum shorts
  7. pum-pums
  8. puma
  9. pumace
  10. pumafentrine
  11. pumalike

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