Drawers

Quick meaning: Drawers is a noun meaning plural of drawer.

Meaning

plural of drawer.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Clothing worn on the legs, especially that worn next to the skin, such as hose or breeches.
2. (dated or regional, informal) Underpants, especially long underpants.
3. (slang) Any clothing covering the legs, such as shorts, trousers, or tights.

Example Sentences

They were armed and I was in my drawers still half asleep.

Question. Where did they strike you? Answer. Struck me in the face once, and struck four times across the legs. Question.Was that after you had taken your drawers off, or before? Answer. After I had taken my drawers off.

“It’s really aggressive,” Eliahu said of the incident. “While it was happening in real time, I thought it was a set up or a prank. Then it was clear they weren’t working together. I just felt bad. The Naked Cowboy he was just trying to keep his drawers up.”

Aside from ridiculing women for their relationships with "O-keys," standing for American and British soldiers, the poem humorously asked them to wash long johns for Polish men because otherwise "UNRA would laugh seeing them wash their drawers" and they would not be clean when they come to make advances.

Synonyms for drawers

Depending on context, synonyms include drawls, draws, knickers, bloomers, pants, shorts.

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