boy-short

noun

Boyshort.

Meanings

nounboy-short (plural boy-shorts)

plural boy-shorts

  1. attributiveBoyshort.

    Most of the choices accentuated my nearly flat chest and butt, but this one,with its pushup bra and boy-short bottoms, almost (almost) makes me look curvaceous.

    2008, Kirsten Sawyer, Not Quite A Mom, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    Passing what seemed to be thousands upon thousands of sexy boy-short panties and padded, leopard-skin bras encrusted in pink rhinestones, Jane walked us to the dressing rooms painted, you got it, pink.

    2014, Diane Keaton, Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty, →ISBN

    Lizette, who was an exotic, tanned Spanish chick with long, curly brown hair, modeled red-lace boy-short panties, a red-lace see-through camisole, and red six-inch platforms.

    2015, Takerra Allen, Thicker Than Water, →ISBN
adjectiveboy-short (comparative more boy-short, superlative most boy-short)

comparative more boy-short · superlative most boy-short

  1. As short as that usually found on boys.

    Her hair was black and cut boy-short.

    2014, Joseph Hansen, Early Graves: Dave Brandstetter Investigation, →ISBN, page 9
    2 more examples

    She got some of the black out and cut it short . . . almost boy-short.

    2014, Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard, →ISBN, page 303

    Once, she had cut her hair boy-short, but it had grown out in a halo of soft dark curls, making her look maybe fifteen.

    2016, Helen Deprima, Into The Storm, →ISBN
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