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A style of typically knee-length lightweight shorts worn generally by males as swimwear and for surfing..
But the appeal of the label — now sold at surf shops in 19 states and 12 countries — is that its black boardshorts and no-frills logos both bypass the sport’s floral sartorial clichés and also, for those in the know, summon up a hard-core, roots surfer image of riders like those Da Hui underwrites.
Use board shorts when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Board shorts means A style of typically knee-length lightweight shorts worn generally by males as swimwear and for surfing..
Common synonyms include boardies.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But the appeal of the label — now sold at surf shops in 19 states and 12 countries — is that its black boardshorts and no-frills logos both bypass the sport’s floral sartorial clichés and also, for those in the know, summon up a hard-core, roots surfer image of riders like those Da Hui underwrites.
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