noun
- underwear, especially men’s underwear
Usage: informal; plural
Examples
- He packed clean skivvies for the camping trip.
- The recruits were told to bring extra skivvies to boot camp.
- She did laundry and hung his skivvies on the line to dry.
- The store sells basic skivvies at reasonable prices.
- He ran out in his skivvies when the fire alarm went off.
- Military personnel often refer to their underwear as skivvies.