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jockstrap
noun
An athletic supporter worn by men to support the genitals during strenuous exercise.
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Under her lace and glitz, he wore a jockstrap.
It is one of several causes of athlete's foot, jockstrap itch, and other ringworm infections in people.
The company he was recruited to back then was as tired and unglamorous as a retired college football player's jockstrap.
In his memoir, he reveals that he considered supplementing his income by working as an exotic dancer in a strip club, until he discovered that one dance routine would require him to wear, and ignite, an asbestos-lined jockstrap soaked with lighter fluid.
To us old soldiers of the gridiron, the locker room means the wafting smell of sour mash and jockstrap fires.
One diehard gentleman tried for years to get the S.F.W.A. to adopt a members-only necktie, deaf to the growing hilarity and the counter-proposals of an S.F.W.A. tiara, an S.F.W.A. bustier, an S.F.W.A. jockstrap.
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Meanwhile, the jockstrap-mouthed baddie in The Dark Knight Rises, Bane, was taken as a subliminal put-down of Mitt Romney's Bain Capital – at least in the mind of Rush Limbaugh.
Green is absolutely the best reason for this daffy sequel to the 2007 sword-and-jockstrap smash to exist: having oddly decided that the first film wasn't quite gay enough, she elects to play Artemisia with more than a hint of Joan Crawford – slaying enemy soldiers with an array of withering glares, their subsequent disembowelment a mere afterthought.
Walker and Wright are jockstrap-tight on Voller and Klinsmann.
Every time he loses a bout, he is manhandled by a jockstrap-clad Tigger, whom he sportingly gives a bro-ish pat.
The black-and-white front cover shot on Dirty Mind is an exact representation of the persona Prince presents onstage – the army surplus flasher's mac (which he is wearing in the Holiday Inn at this very moment: "It's the only coat I've got"), the dark jockstrap-like underpants.
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