smalls

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Underwear.

   • He's in the garden hanging his smalls on the washing line.
   • The smalls he was wearing were tight.
   • Unkempt, bearded to the eyes, there he stood clutching his shapeless old cabbage-tree, in mud-stained jumper and threadbare smalls—the very spit of the unsuccessful digger.
2. 2

   Small goods.

   • He reassured another questioner that B.R. were still deeply interested in smalls traffic, but said that there would have to be substantial changes in the mode of operation and that concentration of the traffic was essential.
3. 3

   The preliminary examination for a degree.

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   1. 4

      Ellipsis of small ads.

      • Provincial English papers still carry their “smalls” — want ads — on the first page.
   2. 5

      plural of small

   3. 6

      third-person singular simple present indicative of small

   4. 7

      Alternative spelling of Small.

The neighborhood

• synonymunmentionables
• synonymunderwear