Y-fronts

English

A man wearing briefs

Noun

Y-fronts pl (plural only)

1. (plural only, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Men's or boys' briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 6:

     Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.

   • 2013, Mike Peyton, Mike Peyton’s Floating Assets, page 4:

     I did the latter, so in writing this I have put it on record that I am one of the few men who has spent Christmas Eve running across a Kentish marsh in his Y-fronts with two horses trotting after him in close company.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:underwear

See also

• jocks
• bibidees
• bikini briefs