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Bermuda shorts

NOUN
knee-length short pants
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"My dad thought I was nuts and refused to come. I was wearing my brother's Bermuda shorts, a swimsuit underneath, and a big sweatshirt with a hood that I pulled around my head," says Gibb.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2023

By 7 p.m. on Saturday, the place was packed, mainly with young adults in Bermuda shorts and summer dresses who appeared to belong to the same crowd as the Harvard-educated twins.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

Still, every time I use the mower I imagine a man in Bermuda shorts, Ban-Lon shirt, a pipe in his teeth, a crushed straw hat on his head — his “weekend” hat.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2022

“I don’t care if you have on flip-flops and Bermuda shorts, you go in,” McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said Tuesday in blistering testimony at a state Senate hearing.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2022

As we walked down the street, I looked back at the man in Bermuda shorts.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm



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