birthday suit

noun

Definition of birthday suitnext
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 And then a couple more lounging in their birthday suits. — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026 Or even do gardening in your birthday suit? — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026 Jenner is no stranger to baring it all in the name of fashion, from freeing the nipple on the runway in a naked dress to ringing in her 30th birthday in nothing but her birthday suit during a tropical getaway. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 26 Jan. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for birthday suit
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  1. nudity
  2. nude
Noun
  • As Schwarzenegger explained it to Hanson, Austrians and bodybuilders are both comfortable with nudity.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Also, there’s a little bit of nudity in the movie, but there was definitely more in the script.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of nudity
Noun
  • The tight cropping in the monochrome nudes isolates slopes, folds, shadowed recesses and curved planes that hover between landscape and abstraction.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Some historians point to one of Leonardo’s sketches from about the same time that show a David-like nude with a leaf over its groin, arguing that Leonardo wanted Michelangelo’s masterpiece modestly concealed.
    — Alicja Zelazko, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of nude

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