Meanings
alternative boxer short
- attributiveAttributive form of boxer shorts.
They had parallel legs joined to a boxer-short design.
2004, Pat Gilbert, Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash, Hachette Books, →ISBN, page 1695 more examples
Does he seem the boxer-short type or is he perhaps a kanga man?
1998, Uganda Review, volume 8, Selum Publications, page 18The boxer-short style, on the other hand, remains a wise choice regardless, since it’s almost impossible to look bad in something that covers so much territory so discreetly.
2000, Ana Veciana-Suarez, Birthday Parties in Heaven: Thoughts on Love, Life, Grief, and Other Matters of the Heart, Plume, →ISBN, page 36Bound, too, plays on the Gen-X aesthetic both through its hip neo-noir look as well as its depiction of the masculine, boyish, boxer-short wearing, tattooed, pouty, tough dyke looking like a low-rent Calvin Klein ad.
2001, Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 165Glimpses of Dad’s nakedness under bathrobe or up boxer-short leg became illicit, both repellent and magnetic.
2004, Judith Levine, Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self, Free Press, →ISBN, page 146[…] as there isn’t a whole lot of narrative here, mostly just the DeGrate and Hailey siblings posing, glaring, finger-pointing, and ripping off their shirts to reveal their washboard abs and boxer-short waistbands.
2005, The Video Librarian, volume 20, page 86
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