jockey shorts

1. 1.

   (used in the plural) short tight-fitting underpants (trade name Jockey shorts)

   Synonymsbriefs

   Broaderunderpants

   plural

Questions about jockey shorts

What does jockey shorts mean?

jockey shorts means "(used in the plural) short tight-fitting underpants (trade name Jockey shorts)".

What is another word for jockey shorts?

Close synonyms include briefs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jockey shorts a common word?

jockey shorts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.