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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

wedgies

English answer:

College game

Added to glossary by John Kinory (X)
May 26, 2002 22:48
21 yrs ago
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English term

wedgies

English Other
Title: The wedge

We give a guy 15 mins to get as many wedgies as he can.
Responses
4 +5 College game
4 +4 below

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com May 26, 2002:
no other context:( im translating independent sentences with no connection..
Cilian O'Tuama May 26, 2002:
If you could give us more context, I'm sure we could give you more satisfactory answers. Thanks.

Responses

+5
45 mins
Selected

College game

It's a US college game: you have to pull someone's shirt so it gets stuck in his bottom. Hard to describe, easy to demonstrate. Can be painful if you are male and it gets caught you-know-where.

This is done e.g. in the Dilbert cartoons.

Makes sense in view of the 'paddle' game (see other question).

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Note added at 2002-05-26 23:35:51 (GMT)
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Maybe underpants rather than shirt!

Anyway, you have a contest to see how many people you can do it to.
Peer comment(s):
agree Klaus Herrmann : Giving wedgies continues to be popular in the U.S. My knowledge on this has been updated fairly recently (passively updated, I should say, by a friend who teaches at a New England _University_)
3 mins
My commiserations :-) And of course, you wouldn't DREAM of doing this to someone else :-)))
agree Vladimir Shapovalov : * British slang: wedgies: pulling up the victims underpants as high as you can from the front and back, it is usually possible to go as high as the chin.
10 mins
agree athena22 : Not shirts. Underpants. American slang, too British. Some things never change.:)
6 hrs
agree jerrie : was all the rage in UK about a year ago...probably still makes a comeback from time to time..
8 hrs
Thanks to all :-)
agree Mads Grøftehauge : Note: the rare _atomic wedgie_ is achieved by pulling the underpants up so high that the elastic band can be pulled over the victim's head. Best performed with underpants with at least 10% Lycra.
2 days 23 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+4
6 mins

below

Main Entry:wedgie
Function:noun
Date:1939

1 : a shoe having a wedge-shaped piece serving as the heel and joining the half sole to form a continuous flat undersurface
2 : the condition of having one's clothing wedged between the buttocks especially from having one's pants or underpants yanked up from behind as a prank — often used with get or give

Merriam-Webster
Peer comment(s):
agree 5Q : With the SECOND suggestion! That's what comes to my mind, and not a lot else.
11 mins
agree John Kinory (X) : The first one occurred to me first, but the 2nd is more likely, assuming this is still an American contest of some sort: is it??? (cf. Dilbert)
32 mins
agree Angela C. : I prefer your second option
42 mins
agree Klaus Herrmann : Yes, second option.
43 mins
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