Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. shorts worn as underwear by men.
Wikipedia
Boxer shorts (also known as loose boxers or as simply boxers) are a type of undergarment typically worn by men.
The term has been used in English since 1944 for all-around-elastic shorts, so named after the shorts worn by boxers, for whom unhindered leg movement ("footwork") is very important.
Boxers come in a variety of styles and design and provide greater mobility than other male undergarments.
Usage examples of "boxer shorts".
A stubby but determined stiffness poked at her from his boxer shorts.
As Lysander could only pull up Franco's jeans mid-thigh, Sherry drove him to Worth Avenue and, despite his protests, kitted him out in boxer shorts, Lacoste polo shirts, chinos, several pairs of loafers and a dark blue baseball cap with saints on the front.
He wore boxer shorts printed with images of cartoon characters doing cartwheels and whacking each other over the head with keyboards.
Trussed to a straight-backed chair, Hawkins wore someone else's boxer shorts and black nylon socks.
This afternoon she had her bridge group coming to the house, and she had been worried last night that Hoke might lurch out into the living room in his urine-stained boxer shorts.
Rudof looked down, his pants about to fall off, and red boxer shorts showing.
He squinted at her as he rose slowly to his feet, and she saw drops of blood on his boxer shorts.
Macklin came out of the bedroom in his billowy boxer shorts, hair standing up in corkscrews, cheeks grizzled with two days of weekend beard, breath grizzled with two days of weekend beer.
Hoke took a long shower, put on his last clean pair of boxer shorts, and decided to watch -The Cowboys-, an old John Wayne movie he had seen before and enjoyed.
Something about those sophisticated boxer shorts teemed a little out of place on a guy who did grunt work on a horse farm.
The new T-shirt was usable as is, and he put it on, but the boxer shorts reflected the Naval Service's fascination with fastening small tags to garments with open staples.
He had partied for years, until there was no one left to party with, then he had partied with himself, alone in small apartments, in T-shirt and boxer shorts, with a bottle and a Baggie of pot and a TV with rabbit ears.
Chuckling, he did as she ordered, and Helen pulled the waistbands of both his slacks and his black silk boxer shorts down to his thighs.
Gianini in my kitchen, and all he was wearing was a pair of boxer shorts.