BVD
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7.3
- noun
- Either that or his BVDs are chafing.
- BVD underwear
Examples
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He jumps out of bed, wearing only a pair of BVDs.
Fiction book (2002) -
I've been for you ever since the day you walked in on me in my BVDs.
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You see that electric sign of the fellow in BVDs?
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You left something out, Jack... where he buys his BVDs.
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The Mahoney Sisters in BVDs.
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Besides the BVD, he had silk shorts with polka dots, shorts with giraffes.
Fiction book (1996) -
But in a sense, he would be wearing it even if he dressed more expensively, because BVD has entered the American version of the English language as a general term for any brand of men's underwear.
Academic text (2011) -
He unpacked his huge suitcase and produced books on our country, a keffiye he had bought in Paris, and BVD underwear of many colors.
Fiction book (1996) -
Hanna swings open the screen door and grimaces when she sees Kay in his BVDs.
Fiction book (1998) -
He prefers wearing BVD briefs because they are comfortable.
Synonyms
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8.3
A brand name for men's underwear like briefs
Surface Forms
Morphology
BVD = B + V + D
This is a trademark initialism (letters B V D) whose letters give no semantic clue to the product for an average learner, so it is opaque.
Etymology
The word BVD comes from the first letters of the founders' names: Brown, Vorhis, and Durand. It became the brand name for men's underwear, so BVD now refers to that kind of undershirt or brief.