Cryptic crossword clue
Rubbish boxers? 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PANTS

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The straight part

We know that "double defn." is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case double defn. = pants.

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What does PANTS mean?

1. (Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers.
2. An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants.
3. Rubbish; something worthless.

1. Of inferior quality, rubbish.

1. To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.

1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
2. Eager longing.
3. A violent palpitation of the heart.

1. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
5. To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
6. To heave, as the breast.
7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

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