A drawer is part of a desk, chest, or other piece of furniture that is shaped like a box and is designed for putting things in. You pull it towards you to open it.
He opened a drawer in his writing-table.
2. plural noun [also a pair ofN]
Drawers are underpants, especially ones worn by women.
[old-fashioned]
3. See also chest of drawers
drawer in British English
(ˈdrɔːə)
noun
1.
a person or thing that draws, esp a draughtsman
2.
a person who draws a cheque
draw (sense 15)
3.
a person who draws up a commercial paper
4. archaic
a person who draws beer, etc, in a bar
5. (drɔː)
a boxlike container in a chest, table, etc, made for sliding in and out
drawer in American English
(ˈdrɔər; for 5, drɔr)
noun
1.
a person or thing that draws
2. Archaic
tapster
3.
a person who draws an order for the payment of money
4.
a draftsman
5.
a sliding storage box in a table, bureau, chest, etc., that can be drawn out and then pushed back into place
More idioms containing
drawer
out of the top drawer
Examples of 'drawer' in a sentence
drawer
So what does it mean for your underwear drawer?
The Sun (2016)
As usual, top drawer ingredients from this brand with the comforting scent of rose.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But don't leave their favourite childhood teddy glowering out from atop the chest of drawers.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Unsurprisingly, the shop grasped her point quickly and pulled out a drawer of suitably empowering finger candy.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I found them underneath his underwear drawer.
The Sun (2016)
As temperatures drop, people are opening drawers and cupboards to find that their best woollen jumpers are full of holes.
The Sun (2016)
But City are just top drawer.
The Sun (2016)
I've considered buying some climbing rope and keeping it in my desk drawer.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I'd sit on the floor, pull the drawer open slowly.
The Sun (2016)
Just take a sneak peak in her underwear drawer at something you know she wears often.
The Sun (2015)
Most of us have got or written drawers full of them.
William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837)
It has three cupboards and four drawers.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Will almost certainly end up in the bottom drawer within a week.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We had a laugh about it and the man is top drawer.
The Sun (2008)
See if your dad has one in his sock drawer.
The Sun (2012)
This spring a splash of colour will add oomph to your knicker drawer.
The Sun (2015)
Instead she witnessed a chest of drawers sliding across the room.
The Sun (2015)
One pair built its nest in an open drawer in a table in an attic.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You could make a lucky find in a drawer you rarely open.
The Sun (2011)
But there was a drawer full of the proper sensible stuff.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Forget about finding the perfect drawers or cupboards.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
These are all displayed in giant bottom drawers.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The result is that some of the people he mixes with are not exactly top drawer.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He kept it in a sock drawer.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The thing buried in the knicker drawer could end up on the coffee table.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But he managed to climb on to a chest of drawers pushed under a window.
The Sun (2012)
All my bits and pieces in my desk drawers were thrown out.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
She ran downstairs as the raiders flung open drawers and sent furniture flying.
The Sun (2008)
There were so many things stuffed in drawers and boxes that we didn't know about.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I reached into the open cutlery drawer and pulled out the carving knife.
Turner, Janine Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home (1988)
The changing table had drawers.
Christianity Today (2000)
Word lists with
drawer
cupboard
In other languages
drawer
British English: drawer /ˈdrɔːə/ NOUN
A drawer is a part of a desk or other piece of furniture that is shaped like a rectangular box. You pull it towards you to open it.
She opened her desk drawer and took out the book.
American English: drawer
Arabic: دُرْج
Brazilian Portuguese: gaveta
Chinese: 抽屉
Croatian: ladica
Czech: zásuvka nábytku
Danish: skuffe
Dutch: lade
European Spanish: cajón
Finnish: pöytälaatikko
French: tiroir
German: Schublade
Greek: συρτάρι
Italian: cassetto
Japanese: 引き出し
Korean: 서랍
Norwegian: skuff
Polish: szuflada
European Portuguese: gaveta
Romanian: sertar
Russian: выдвижной ящик
Latin American Spanish: cajón
Swedish: låda
Thai: ลิ้นชัก
Turkish: çekmece
Ukrainian: шухляда
Vietnamese: ngăn kéo
All related terms of 'drawer'
top drawer
If you describe someone or something as top-drawer , you are saying , often in a humorous way, that they have a high social standing or are of very good quality.
wire-drawer
a machine for drawing metal into wire
bottom drawer
a young woman's collection of clothes, linen , cutlery , etc, in anticipation of marriage
cutlery drawer
a drawer in which cutlery is kept
refer to drawer
a request by a bank that the payee consult the drawer concerning a cheque payable by that bank (usually because the drawer has insufficient funds in his or her account), payment being suspended in the meantime
out of the top drawer
among the best of a particular kind
fine-draw
to sew together so finely that the join is scarcely noticeable