unders
- 1Underwear; the garments worn next to the skin beneath one's outer clothing.
He stuffed a week's worth of unders into his backpack.
The hotel laundry returned everyone's unders neatly folded.
Similarundies, smalls, underwear
Note
A homely word that exists only in the plural: nobody wears "an under," only their unders. It suits loose, spoken-sounding prose, like the narrator of Barbara Williams's Shoot-Out at Jasper Creek (2008), whose woman stands in the door "in her unders." Keep it for casual talk and writing. Underwear is the neutral choice anywhere more formal.
- 2Plural of under.
Bettors placed more unders than overs before kickoff.
The sportsbook adjusted its lines after a string of unders.
Note
Only the noun under takes a plural, so unders means several shortfalls, several low items, or, most often in practice, several bets that a total will come in below the line. The preposition never pluralizes. Context matters here, because the same spelling also serves as the casual word for underwear.
unders is a form of under
under, noun: The amount by which an actual total is less than the expected or required amount, as when a cash count comes up short. Full entry
- Forms
- underunders plural
- Spelling
- under → unders: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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