wedgie

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English[edit]

A male receiving a wedgie.

Etymology[edit]

From wedge +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɛdʒ.i/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛdʒi

Noun[edit]

wedgie (plural wedgies)

  1. (colloquial) A wedge-heeled shoe.
  2. (slang) A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.
    • 2003, James Oliver Cury, The Playboy Guide to Bachelor Parties: Everything You Need to Know About Planning the Groom's Rite of Passage-From Simple to Sinful, page 228:
      If the strippers learn that there is a bachelor party, they will often call the groom onstage and publicly embarrass him. They may tie him up, whip him, tease him, give him a wedgie, cover him in whipped cream, beat his ass with a belt, put a dog collar on him, walk him around the stage like a dog, and/or humiliate him with whatever objects are at their disposal.
    • 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
      When Laura tells Bart that she can teach him to dance, Bart and Laura are suddenly transformed into Astaire and Rogers in a black-and-white fantasy sequence before Bart’s reverie is abruptly ended when Laura reverts back to bratty tomboy form and gives him a wedgie.
  3. (slang) A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks.
    • 2012, Beverly Rivers, The Metamorphosis of Princess Kizziemae, page 38:
      I thought, maybe she had an uncomfortable wedgie or something and was trying to work that out. I looked away thinking how embarrassing it must be especially with people staring.
  4. (basketball, slang) A basketball stuck between the rim and the backboard following a field goal, free throw, rebound, or block attempt.
  5. (Australia) A wedge-tailed eagle.
    • 2003, Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory, page 27:
      The white-bellied sea eagle is almost as big as a wedgie and handsomely marked in grey and white.
    • 2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 58:
      Well over a century later the ‘wedgie’ continues to be persecuted, with some rural Tasmanians taking a gun to it when they can.

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wedgie (third-person singular simple present wedgies, present participle wedgying, simple past and past participle wedgied)

  1. (slang) To play the wedgie prank on.
    • 1989, Michael Moffatt, Coming of Age in New Jersey, page 86:
      Last year's juniors had wedgied last year's freshmen, and then each freshman victim had happily joined the patrol, its aficionados claimed.