DRAWERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drawers mean? 

• DRAWERS (noun)
  The noun DRAWERS has 2 senses:

1. underpants worn by men

2. (used in the plural) underpants worn by women

  Familiarity information: DRAWERS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAWERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Underpants worn by men

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

boxers; boxershorts; drawers; shorts; underdrawers

Hypernyms ("drawers" is a kind of...):

underpants (an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used in the plural) underpants worn by women

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bloomers; drawers; knickers; pants

Context example:

she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing

Hypernyms ("drawers" is a kind of...):

underpants (an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

No, never: we might do what we pleased; ransack her desk and her workbox, and turn her drawers inside out; and she was so good-natured, she would give us anything we asked for.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Is that the reason why Miss Murdstone took the clothes out of my drawers?” which she had done, though I have forgotten to mention it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient rummage around opening and unpacking drawers or closets?

(NPI - Rummage Around Opening and Unpacking Drawers or Closets, NCI Thesaurus)

Not for anything in the drawers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was naked save for a linen under shirt and pair of woollen drawers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he emerged from the throng he let his great-coat fly loose, and showed that he was dressed in his full fighting kit—black drawers, chocolate stockings, and white shoes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient pace, do things over and over such as opening closets or drawers, or repeatedly pick at things or wind string or threads?

(NPI - Pace, Do Things Over and Over, Repeatedly Pick at Things, NCI Thesaurus)

Hewers of wood and drawers of water, such were they from now onwards.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly, as I looked, he rose from his chair, and walking over to a bureau at the side, he unlocked it and drew out one of the drawers.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones empty and open, the lower one locked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)