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proper noun ® plural
- A brand of breakfast cereal manufactured by w:Nestlé, Nestlé.
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noun (pluralonly)
- (UK, slang) Underwear.
- 1995, Joe Simpson, This Game of Ghosts, The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 0898864607,
- :As Mark came out of the bathroom, I remembered my underpants. ¶ "Hey Mark, have you got my ?"
- 2001, Irvine Welsh, Glue, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0393322157, page 40,
- :As ah stand up n pill oan ma , then ma jeans in T-shirt, she's staring oaf intae space, then wrappin her clathes roond her.
- 2004, Harry Foxley, Marking Time: A Soldier's Story, Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1412015871, page 165,
- :So adept did I become, in fact, that I could shower, shave and wash out socks and on as little as three penn"orth remaining on the meter (which had not yet been decimalized).
- 2004, Toby Bishop, Cry Havoc: A Trip to Hell for a Group of Ageing Mercenaries Who Should Have Known Better, iUniverse, ISBN 0595321658, page 43,
- :Their luggage was minimal, as he would have expected"shirts, Shreddies, socks, trousers and the rest of the basics of self-maintenance.
- 2006, Brian Carlin, Boy Entrant, Lulu Press, Inc., ISBN 1411694333, page 61,
- :"Drawers, cellular, six""that was six pairs of loose-legged underwear that would come down to mid-thigh made from a cellular cotton fabric. We would later learn that the <small>RAF</small> slang name for these garments was "" because of their tendency to become threadbare and shred at the crotch where they rubbed against the harsh worsted material of our trousers.
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