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birthday suit
birthday suitn. The state of being nude; nakedness.birthday suit n informal jocular a state of total nakedness, as at birth birth′day suit` n. Informal. bare skin; nakedness. [1745–55] birthday suitA state of nakedness; from the idea of being born naked.ThesaurusNoun | 1. | birthday suit - informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit"altogether, rawnakedness, nudeness, nudity - the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind |
birthday suit
birthday suitWhat one is said to be "wearing" while completely naked. Alludes to the fact that one is born without clothing. I have a recurring nightmare where I'm walking through school in my birthday suit. As kids, we had no problem going swimming together in our birthday suits.See also: birthday, suitbirthday suitNakedness, as in The doorbell rang, and here I was in my birthday suit. In 18th-century Britain this term originally referred to the clothes one wore on the king's birthday. Later it was jocularly transferred to bare skin, alluding to the condition of a newborn baby. See also: birthday, suitbirthday suitWearing no clothes. People said to be in their birthday suit are as naked as the day they were born.See also: birthday, suitEncyclopediaSeeNudityBirthday Suit What one is wearing when one is nakedbirthday suit
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