gym knickers

noun

Large girls' underpants traditionally worn as shorts during school sports activities.

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noungym knickers pl (plural only)
  1. UKpluralplural onlyLarge girls' underpants traditionally worn as shorts during school sports activities.

    "But instead of going there, I sneaked into the Trunchbull's room. And after a speedy search I found the drawer where she kept all her gym knickers."

    1989, Roald Dahl, Matilda
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    I never knew why they singled me out, though at the time I believed it was because my mother made me wear green gym knickers and everyone else's were navy or white.

    1993 October 11, Angela Lambert, The Independent

    I remember being forced to do cross-country runs in horrible navy gym knickers, which is a nightmare when you're not exactly built like Paula Radcliffe [...].

    2010 December 5, Gail Emms, The Guardian
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