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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(US, colloquial) Underwear, especially men's underwear and especially men's underpants..
My skivvies disappeared in surgery, a sinister conjunction of circumstance.
Then she pulled his pants down around his knees. He had a pair of old gray-and-white tight skivvies on. They were worn and threadbare and tight around his groin.
“I brought some jeans, a sweater, a heavy shirt, some thermal socks and some skivvies.” He replied. “Skivvies?” A questioning look wrinkled her forehead. “Undershirts and underpants.” He explained.
Everyone in 2nd platoon had two pairs of boots, two pairs of utilities and several pair of skivvies, which served no purpose in Nam. No one wore skivvies because of the intense heat and it took only one case of heat rash, affectionately named “crotch rot,” to impress on us that skivvies were better suited as rags to clean weapons and tools.
And the ceiling is so low that the man dancing on the bar, in nothing but his skivvies, was hunched over like a gorilla.
Use skivvies when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Skivvies means (US, colloquial) Underwear, especially men's underwear and especially men's underpants..
Common synonyms include lingerie, shreddies, skivvies, smalls.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
My skivvies disappeared in surgery, a sinister conjunction of circumstance.
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