Word.ws English Dictionary

Y-fronts

Y-fronts noun: briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.

y-fronts: briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams
Image: Mjoseoc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

Y-fronts pl (plural only)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal, plural, plural-only) Briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.
    • Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 6
    • I did the latter, so in writing this I have put it on record that I am one of the few men who has spent Christmas Eve running across a Kentish marsh in his Y-fronts with two horses trotting after him in close company.2013, Mike Peyton, Mike Peyton’s Floating Assets, page 4
    Synonyms:
    underwear

Synonyms of Y-fronts

Questions about Y-fronts

What does Y-fronts mean?
Y-fronts means briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.
What part of speech is Y-fronts?
Y-fronts is a noun.

Words near Y-fronts in the dictionary

  1. Y-chromosomes
  2. Y-Day
  3. y-direction
  4. y-front
  5. Y-fronted
  6. Y-fronts
  7. y-intercept
  8. y-intercepts
  9. Y-intersection
  10. Y-intersections
  11. Y-jack

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Y-fronts (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Y-fronts.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/y-fronts. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.