Meanings
- not comparableWearing board shorts.
By the time the men’s final was under way an estimated 25,000 bikini-clad and board-shorted surf lovers were there to watch.
1985 November 25, Michael Cockerill, “The day Steel City ruled the waves”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 46,149, page 483 more examples
She greeted the bikini-clad and board-shorted onlookers politely between poses for photographs that apparently were destined for a weekly magazine.
1988 January 6, Wendy Tuohy, “Still a place to be seen and overheard”, in The Age, number 41,374, page 8Hippies and surfers have been heading to this unremarkable looking village since the 1970s, creating a unique micro-community where men in djellabas share a table with boardshorted surfers.
2004, Chris Nelson, Demi Taylor, Surfing Europe, Footprint, →ISBN, page 366Shirtless, board-shorted and weary behind their aviator sunglasses, they’d made it through the first night of the Electric Daisy Carnival, the dance-music bacchanal that has become America’s largest multiday music festival.
2014 June 23, August Brown, “Gathering of the EDM tribes in Vegas”, in Los Angeles Times, page D3
Origin
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