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
Seeing a serial killer in his birthday suit can go a long way.
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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
Arnold Schwarzenegger is no stranger to appearing in his birthday suit on screen.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
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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
Arnold Schwarzenegger is no stranger to appearing in his birthday suit on screen.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 11 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for birthday suit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birthday suit
Noun
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Instead of explicit nudity, the film rests on stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to deliver the heady energy.—
Emily Maskell,
IndieWire,
3 Apr. 2026
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An easy comparison with the version available concurrently on PPOV showed the omission of Sidney Sweeney’s partial nudity in the steamy scenes that helped turn Paul Feig’s rebooting of the 1990s erotic thriller into one of the year’s megahits.—
Gustavo Turner,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2026
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Also present this weekend was Joan Semmel—a painter focused on sexuality, a surprising take on nudes, and her own aging body—a friend of my mother’s from decades of summers spent in East Hampton’s Springs neighborhood.—
Vanessa Grigoriadis,
Vanity Fair,
10 Mar. 2026
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In ancient Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago, beautiful nudes depict both ideal women and goddesses.—
Anna Swartwood House,
The Conversation,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Birthday suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birthday%20suit. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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