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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
underpants
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
wear
▪ This kitchen is unheated, and underneath the cloth he's only wearing a pair of underpants.
▪ And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing.
▪ A lot of men wear striped underpants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After two unsuccessful marriages, I find myself keeping my guard up, along with my underpants.
▪ Cassius closed his eyes and waited, then Collymore had him, was stripping him down to his sad underpants.
▪ Gervase, you have perhaps noticed that I have never removed my underpants in your presence.
▪ He sat on the examination table in his underpants, and I noticed how desperately thin he was getting.
▪ She had on a pair of underpants and a flannel night-gown, nothing else.
▪ The shower is the only time in any twenty-four-hour period I take my underpants right off.
▪ They keep their legs slightly apart so as not ro bruise the boils under their too short dresses and thin cotton underpants.
▪ This kitchen is unheated, and underneath the cloth he's only wearing a pair of underpants.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
underpants

1931, from under + pants. Drove out drawers, knickers in this sense.

Wiktionary
underpants

n. underwear, clothing covering the genitalia.

WordNet
underpants

n. an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin

Wikipedia
Underpants

Underpants (often abbreviated to pants in British English) are an undergarment covering the body from the waist or hips to the top of the thighs or knees. In British English the term refers to men's underwear, while in the US the term is gender neutral. The equivalent woman's garment are panties or knickers.

Usage examples of "underpants".

No, the men want diseased mestiza whores from Tingo with bloody underpants, three-day-old makeup and sour mouths from cheap pisco.

With a final rip, the dress split in two and Desdemona lay on the linoleum, exposing to the world the misery of her underwear, her overburdened underwire brassiere, her gloomy underpants, and the frantic girdle whose stays she was even now popping as she approached the summit of her dishevelment.

Fingers tangle in my clothes, and I feel Nav taking off her underpants, dropping them next to the sink.

What he saw was Sy Kassler trying to move through the crowd while behind him Norman Meltz, trousers and underpants at his ankles, hopped along, holding his large flaccid shlong in his hand and pathetically flapping it up and down in dismay.

Marching stiffly up the alley, he saw Sturm pull down her underpants, brace his left hand in the small of her back and reach between her thighs with his right.

I put my sweaters neatly in the dresser drawers, my socks and underpants, too, and hung my pants up.

With a final rip, the dress split in two and Desdemona lay on the linoleum, exposing to the world the misery of her underwear, her overburdened underwire brassiere, her gloomy underpants, and the frantic girdle whose stays she was even now popping as she approached the summit of her dishevelment.

She tugged off the light cotton pants and stood there in brassiere and underpants and took stock.

The big black-haired plainclothes man bonged his private spittoon again and said: "I hear the mayor changed his underpants, but it's just a rumor.

He wore a sorcot, underpants and braies same as everyone else, yet I stood hypnotized as one by one he discarded each piece while his diatribe against the French king continued unabated.

But he accepted the confession nonetheless, hearing with mounting anger the skein of the Jesuit's sins: the pair of underpants he had stolen from Soutane that had, apparently, alerted her to the fact that her apartment had been searched, her subsequent entrapment of the priest in the Cours Saleya, his divulging everything he knew of the Forest of Swords, of who he was working for, including Dante's name.

He turned and it was Kit Bradenton, clad only in absurd yellow underpants, his poet's pot hanging over the waistband like an avalanche held in suspended animation.

From the back of her closet she took a plastic shopping bag into which she put a pair of bikini underpants, a bra, a neatly folded lavender summer dress, a pair of low-heeled pumps, a can of spray deodorant, a plastic bottle of bath powder, a toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste.

Heller had to turn down a lot more than he bought: three pairs of shoes, six white, long-sleeved undershirts, twelve pairs of baseball socks with red-striped tops, two white exercise suits, a dozen support underpants, two unlettered uniforms that were white with red stripes, a red anorak with captain's stripes, a black belt and a red batting helmet.

Then I got out a pair of my pink nylon underpants and shoved them down underneath between the sheets, but letting them show just enough.