Definition

1. Noun:
   • A trademark for men's underwear: "BVD's" is a proprietary name for a brand of men's undergarments, often used informally to refer to men's underwear in general.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • He packed a clean pair of BVD's for the trip.
  • In the old advertisement, the cowboy was wearing only his BVD's.

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in a casual, sometimes humorous or old-fashioned context to refer to men's underwear.
  • He ran out in his BVD's to get the newspaper.

Variants and Related Words

• BVD: A variant spelling without the apostrophe and "s," though "BVD's" is common.
  • The BVD brand has been around for over a century.

Synonyms

• Underwear: General term for clothing worn beneath outer clothes.
• Undergarments: A more formal term for underwear.
• Briefs: A specific style of close-fitting men's underwear.

Notes on Meaning

• The word is a trademark (BVD) used as a genericized term. It is typically pluralized with an apostrophe and "s" ('BVD's') in common usage, though this is not the standard form of the trademark itself.
• It specifically refers to men's underwear and carries a mid-20th-century American cultural connotation.

Noun

1. trademark for men's underwear