different between underwear vs freeball

English

Etymology

From under- +? wear. Compare Dutch ondergoed, German Unterwäsche, Swedish underkläder.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nd??w??/, /??nd?w?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nd?w??/

Noun

underwear (uncountable)

1. Clothes worn next to the skin, underneath outer clothing.
2. (colloquial) Underpants (boxers, briefs, panties, etc) and often bras.
   • 1998, Banjo-Kazooie, Rareware.

   • 2006, Toni L. Meilleur, Tournament of Fire

     “A thong,” she answered him breathlessly. Now completely turned on by the fact that his man was sniffing her underwear and grinning like a tiger that took down its prey. That is if tigers could smile and still look sexy.

Synonyms

• shreddies
• underclothes
• undergarment
• undies
• See also Thesaurus:underwear

Translations

English

Etymology 1

free +? ball. See ball (“testicle”).

Pronunciation

Verb

freeball (third-person singular simple present freeballs, present participle freeballing, simple past and past participle freeballed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To wear no underwear under one's outer clothing.
   • 1995, Steven Zeeland, in some book or something:

     And when you freeball in fatigues you're a walking hard-on anyway […]

   • 2003, Christian Fletcher, in another book:

     I had run out of clean underwear on a road trip, and I had heard rumors about the pleasures associated with freeballing, and so I made the decision and […]

   • 2004, Michael Ryan:

     […] has thrown away dozens of pairs of underwear throughout his life, having to freeball the rest of the day.

See also

• free ball
• free-boob
• go commando

Etymology 2

Noun

freeball (plural freeballs)

1. (volleyball) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
2. (television) A show that is developed by the station without participation by the network.

Verb

freeball (third-person singular simple present freeballs, present participle freeballing, simple past and past participle freeballed)

1. To improvise; to act without a set plan.
2. (volleyball) To make a freeball shot.