pum-pum shorts

English

Alternative forms

• poom-poom shorts

Noun

pum-pum shorts pl (plural only)

1. (slang) Tight-fitting shorts.
   • 1996, “Fu-Gee-La”, in The Score, performed by Fugees:

     Yeah, in saloons we drink Boone's and battle goons 'til high noon / Bust rap tunes on flat spoons, take no shorts like poom-pooms

   • 2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:

     “Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”