birthday suit

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noun
  1. bare skin; nakedness: They were sunbathing in their birthday suits.

Origin of birthday suit

1
First recorded in 1745–55

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How to use birthday suit in a sentence

  • birthday suit, the suit in which Adam and Eve first saw each other, and were not ashamed.

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  • He really looked as if Apollo had sent him a birthday suit, or a wedding-garment, and was witty and lively.

  • I had a fellow feeling for that Mazeppa party who was tied in his birthday suit to the back of a wild horse.

British Dictionary definitions for birthday suit

birthday suit

noun
  1. informal, jocular a state of total nakedness, as at birth

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Cultural definitions for birthday suit

birthday suit

To be “in one's birthday suit” is to be completely naked (as people are at birth).

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Other Idioms and Phrases with birthday suit

birthday suit

Nakedness, as in The doorbell rang, and here I was in my birthday suit. In 18th-century Britain this term originally referred to the clothes one wore on the king's birthday. Later it was jocularly transferred to bare skin, alluding to the condition of a newborn baby.

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