board-shorted

English

Etymology

From board shorts +‎ -ed.

Adjective

board-shorted (not comparable)

1. Wearing board shorts.
   • 1985 November 25, Michael Cockerill, “The day Steel City ruled the waves”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 46,149, page 48:

     By the time the men’s final was under way an estimated 25,000 bikini-clad and board-shorted surf lovers were there to watch.

   • 1988 January 6, Wendy Tuohy, “Still a place to be seen and overheard”, in The Age, number 41,374, page 8:

     She greeted the bikini-clad and board-shorted onlookers politely between poses for photographs that apparently were destined for a weekly magazine.

   • 2004, Chris Nelson, Demi Taylor, Surfing Europe, Footprint, →ISBN, page 366:

     Hippies and surfers have been heading to this unremarkable looking village since the 1970s, creating a unique micro-community where men in djellabas share a table with boardshorted surfers.

   • 2014 June 23, August Brown, “Gathering of the EDM tribes in Vegas”, in Los Angeles Times, page D3:

     Shirtless, board-shorted and weary behind their aviator sunglasses, they’d made it through the first night of the Electric Daisy Carnival, the dance-music bacchanal that has become America’s largest multiday music festival.