wedgie

plural wedgies

1. colloquialA wedge-heeled shoe.

   Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk.

   1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN

2. slangA prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.

   When Laura tells Bart that she can teach him to dance, Bart and Laura are suddenly transformed into Astaire and Rogers in a black-and-white fantasy sequence before Bart’s reverie is abruptly ended when Laura reverts back to bratty tomboy form and gives him a wedgie.

   2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club

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   If the strippers learn that there is a bachelor party, they will often call the groom onstage and publicly embarrass him. They may tie him up, whip him, tease him, give him a wedgie, cover him in whipped cream, beat his ass with a belt, put a dog collar on him, walk him around the stage like a dog, and/or humiliate him with whatever objects are at their disposal.

   2003, James Oliver Cury, The Playboy Guide to Bachelor Parties: Everything You Need to Know About Planning the Groom's Rite of Passage-From Simple to Sinful, page 228

   Synonyms: snuggie

3. slangA situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks.

   I thought, maybe she had an uncomfortable wedgie or something and was trying to work that out. I looked away thinking how embarrassing it must be especially with people staring.

   2012, Beverly Rivers, The Metamorphosis of Princess Kizziemae, page 38

4. slangball gamesA basketball stuck between the rim and the backboard following a field goal, free throw, rebound, or block attempt.
5. AustraliaA wedge-tailed eagle.

   The white-bellied sea eagle is almost as big as a wedgie and handsomely marked in grey and white.

   2003, Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory, page 27

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   Well over a century later the ‘wedgie’ continues to be persecuted, with some rural Tasmanians taking a gun to it when they can.

   2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 58

present singular third person wedgies · participle present wedgying · participle past wedgied · past wedgied

1. slangTo play the wedgie prank on.

   Last year's juniors had wedgied last year's freshmen, and then each freshman victim had happily joined the patrol, its aficionados claimed.

   1989, Michael Moffatt, Coming of Age in New Jersey, page 86