Usually means: Underwear typically worn for comfort.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word skivvies:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. skivvies: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. skivvies: Merriam-Webster
  3. skivvies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Skivvies: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. skivvies: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Skivvies: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skivvies, skivvies: Wordnik
  8. skivvies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. skivvies: Wiktionary
  10. skivvies: Dictionary.com
  11. skivvies: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. The Skivvies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Skivvies: Rhymezone
  14. skivvies: FreeDictionary.org
  15. skivvies: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Skivvies: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Skivvies: World Wide Words

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. skivvies: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. skivvies: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. skivvies: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (US, colloquial) Underwear, especially men's underwear and especially men's underpants.

Similar:
shreddies, skin, skiv, skilts, vesses, scut, slash, walls, wormshit, kecks, more...

Opposite:
fancy clothes, formal wear, dress clothes

Types:
briefs, boxers, boxer briefs, trunks, jockstrap, more...

Adjectives:
clean, white, green, dirty, new, only, born, soiled, wet, torn, black
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Similar:
shreddies, skin, skiv, skilts, vesses, scut, slash, walls, wormshit, kecks, more...

Opposite:
fancy clothes, formal wear, dress clothes

Types:
briefs, boxers, boxer briefs, trunks, jockstrap, more...

Adjectives:
clean, white, green, dirty, new, only, born, soiled, wet, torn, black



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