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pum-pum shorts pl (plural only)

  1. (slang) Tight-fitting shorts.
    • 1996, “Fu-Gee-La”, in The Score, performed by Fugees:
      Yeah, in saloons we drink Boone's and battle goons 'til high noon / Bust rap tunes on flat spoons, take no shorts like poom-pooms
    • 2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:
      “Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”