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whiteys

whiteys noun: men's or boys’ traditionally white briefs. Also the plural of whitey.

Noun

whiteys pl (plural only)

  1. (US, plural, plural-only, slang) Men's or boys’ traditionally white briefs.
    • Like a hot knife through butter the razor parted the tissue and muscle and nerves and like the Red Sea to Moses those two visible vertebrae split away from one another. Instantly rendering his legs useless and even before the bright red blood began to stain the tidiness of his whiteys, Abraham...2019, Angel Van Atta, The Child, page 7

Also used as

whiteys is also the plural of whitey.

Forms of whiteys

alternative formwhities

Origin of whiteys

Clipping of tighty-whiteys.

Phrases with whiteys

Questions about whiteys

What does whiteys mean?
Whiteys means men's or boys’ traditionally white briefs.
What part of speech is whiteys?
Whiteys is a noun.

Words near whiteys in the dictionary

  1. whiteworm
  2. whiteworms
  3. whitewort
  4. whitey
  5. whitey tighties
  6. whiteys
  7. whiteywood
  8. whiteywoods
  9. Whitfield
  10. Whitfield County
  11. Whitfield's ointment

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