wedgie

[wej-ee] /ˈwɛdʒ i/
noun
1.
Often, wedgies. a shoe with a wedge heel.
2.
Informal. the condition of having one's underpants or other clothing uncomfortably stuck between the buttocks.
Origin
wedge + -ie
British Dictionary definitions for wedgie

wedgie

/ˈwɛdʒɪ/
noun
1.
(informal) the state of having one's underpants or shorts caught between one's buttocks (esp in the phrase give someone a wedgie)
Word Origin
C20: from wedge
Word Origin and History for wedgie
n.

1940, "wedge-heeled shoe," from wedge (n.) + -ie. The underwear prank so called by 1970s, from the effect it gives the victim.

Slang definitions & phrases for wedgie

wedgie

noun

The prank of pulling the underwear upward from behind by the waistband; melvin, murphy: the impression of leaping through the camera lens and giving the viewers a wedgie/ by pulling up their underpants to give them ''wedgies''

[1970s+ Children; presumably fr wedging the underpants between the buttocks]


wedgie in Technology


(Fairchild) A bug. Probably related to wedged.