birthday suit
noun
bare skin; nakedness: They were sunbathing in their birthday suits.
Origin of birthday suit
First recorded in 1745–55
Words nearby birthday suit
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British Dictionary definitions for birthday suit
birthday suit
noun
informal, jocular
a state of total nakedness, as at birth
Cultural definitions for birthday suit
birthday suit
To be “in one's birthday suit” is to be completely naked (as people are at birth).
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.