coochie cutters

plural noun

variants or less commonly coochie-cutters

ˈkü-chē-ˈkə-tərz 

slang

: shorts that are very short and often tight-fitting

I'm back in coochie cutters and tights this fall/winter.

—@BehaviorDoll, on X, formerly Twitter

I was wearing very short shorts—we called them coochie cutters—and an oversized Stussy T-shirt.

—Eleanor Henderson

… the author presents a kind of memoir of her life through certain iconic looks that she incorporated over the years, creating through hairstyle, clothes, and accessories a "powerful social skin." Her topics include the dashiki, baggy jeans, "coochie cutters," knee-high boots …, bamboo earrings, the afro puff, and the hoodie …

—Kirkus Reviews

Word History

First Known Use

1992, in the meaning defined above