Definition of "underwear" []

• Clothes worn next to the skin, beneath one's outer clothing. Also called underclothes, underclothing. (noun)

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• "Girls in underwear is not nudity and never has been."
• "Girls in underwear is nudity, at least, traditionally."
• "But Roger, I think the thing that has everyone tying knots in underwear is your implication that children's and YA lit is somehow intellectually inferior."