wedgie
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈwɛdʒ.i/
wedgie (plural wedgies)
- (colloquial) A wedge-heeled shoe.
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:
- Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk.
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:
- (slang) A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.
- (slang) A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks.
- (basketball, slang) a basketball stuck between the rim and the backboard following a field goal, free throw, rebound#Noun|rebound, or block#Verb|block attempt.
- (informal, birdwatching) wedge-tailed eagle
- 2003, Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory (page 27)
- The white-bellied sea eagle is almost as big as a wedgie and handsomely marked in grey and white.
- 2003, Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory (page 27)
- (prank) snuggie
wedgie (wedgies, present participle wedgying; past and past participle wedgied)
- (slang) To play the wedgie prank on.
- 1989, Michael Moffatt, Coming of Age in New Jersey (page 86)
- Last year's juniors had wedgied last year's freshmen, and then each freshman victim had happily joined the patrol, its aficionados claimed.
- 1989, Michael Moffatt, Coming of Age in New Jersey (page 86)
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