long-handled underwear

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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warm underwear having ankle-length legs and, usually, long sleeves.

Quotations

1937

I wear light wool "long-handled" underwear. . . .

1947

On shelves, behind the counter, is long handled underwear that men and women alike purchase and wear.

1966

All around me, in their double-decker bunks, lay sleeping lumberjacks clad in their sweaty long-handled underwear. . . .