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briefs

US // (briːfs) //

内裤,简报,简讯,简述

Related Words

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : men's underpants or women's pants without legs

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.short, compressed

Examples

  • From the start, Protess and his students were doing more than reading legal briefs.

  • Sometimes when a woman asks him to sign her briefs, it turns out she's still wearing them.

  • Burt is part of an informal, unpaid foreign policy team who regularly briefs Paul on international issues.

  • One afternoon at 5:30 p.m., we sit in the dining room as Doug briefs the staff about the evening special: Hawaiian pink snapper.

  • But these briefs are serious in tone even though Ilya is funny in person.

  • In the preparation of briefs and in oral arguments before the Supreme Court, Fitch was the superior.

  • Diamonds had become more to him than either briefs or pleadings.

  • At Court he got no briefs, but his fellowship enabled him to live by practising economy.

  • "It is as much as saying, he 'll enter into recognizances for an indefinite series of five-hundred-pound briefs," added O'Reilly.

  • Briefs gave him his dinner, the drama gave him his supper; his supper got to be the more substantial of the two.