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Boxers vs Shorts - What's the difference?

boxers | shorts |

As nouns the difference between boxers and shorts

is that boxers is boxer shorts while shorts is .

boxers

English

Noun

(head)
  • (informal, plurale tantum) A pair of boxer shorts
    • You could see his boxers under his trousers.

    shorts

    English

    (wikipedia shorts)

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • English plurals
  • Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees.
    • Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts .
  • Underwear bottoms.
    • After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts .
  • (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
  • The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
  • * Halliwell
    • The first remove above bran is shorts .
  • Short, inferior hemp.

    • Derived terms

    * boardshorts * booty shorts * boxer shorts * swimshorts * sleep shorts

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