Reg Grundys

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Etymology

Rhyming slang from the name of Australian businessman and media mogul Reg Grundy.

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Noun

Reg Grundys pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, rhyming slang) Undies.
    • 2001, Shane Maloney, chapter I, in The Brush-Off‎[1], page 286:
      If this kept up, I′d get dizzy and pass out. And then Ken would start to go through my pockets and find what I had in my Reg Grundys.
    • 2007, Robert G Barrett, Les Norton and the Case of the Talking Pie Crust, HarperCollins Australia, published 2010, unnumbered page:
      But Lasjoz kept his T-shirts, sox, Reg Grundys and hankies folded tidily and separated from each other.
    • 2009, Sonia Neale, Death by Teenager, HarperCollins Australia, published 2011, unnumbered page:
      What makes my children′s faces blaze hotter than crimson French knickers and matching suspender belt, is catching their parents walking around the house dressed only in their Reg Grundys.

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