pum-pum shorts

noun

Tight-fitting shorts.

Meanings

nounpum-pum shorts pl (plural only)

alternative poom-poom shorts

  1. pluralplural onlyslangTight-fitting shorts.

    Yeah, in saloons we drink Boone's and battle goons 'til high noon / Bust rap tunes on flat spoons, take no shorts like poom-pooms

    1996, “Fu-Gee-La”, in The Score, performed by Fugees
    1 more example

    “Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”

    2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77
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