as in nudity
the state of having no clothes on one's body
with all of the resort guests in their birthday suits, socioeconomic differences became invisible and irrelevant
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Recent Examples of birthday suit
Kendall Jenner stripped down to nothing but her birthday suit and a white sheet on Sunday.
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Lara Walsh, InStyle, 26 Jan. 2026
Seeing a serial killer in his birthday suit can go a long way.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
When things are about to get hot and heavy, Nielsen’s Drebin pulls tears off his suit to reveal…his birthday suit.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
He’s appeared on the cover of a sports magazine in his birthday suit.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 3 July 2025
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Lara Walsh, InStyle, 26 Jan. 2026
Seeing a serial killer in his birthday suit can go a long way.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
When things are about to get hot and heavy, Nielsen’s Drebin pulls tears off his suit to reveal…his birthday suit.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
He’s appeared on the cover of a sports magazine in his birthday suit.
—Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for birthday suit
Noun
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Slyly, the series reveals all the ways in which nudity is or isn’t sanctioned, bodily labor affirmed or condemned.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
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One way to stop this proliferation of deep-fake nudity is to prosecute the offenders and make examples that such foolery has consequences.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Emin’s masterpiece thumbed its nose at a tradition of recumbent feminine flesh on tousled white sheets (think Titian’s Venus of Urbino, Manet’s Olympia, or any number of bosomy Lucian Freud nudes).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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The resulting triptych was exhibited in the backroom of the Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery for a 1978 group show focused on the male nude in photography.—
Andrew Durbin,
Vulture,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Birthday suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birthday%20suit. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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