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the art of wearing pants as if underwear never got invented.
means to go without underwear beneath your clothes.
from From 'commando,' the military term for elite soldiers trained for fast, stripped-down raids — in Afrikaans and Portuguese roots meaning a commanded group or raiding party. The slang sense ('going commando') borrows the image of traveling light, unencumbered by extra gear — in this case, underwear — though exactly when and where the slang jump happened is murky, with its clearest documented rise in late-20th-century English.
- origin
- afrikaans for raiding militia, not laundry habits
- friends slang
- popularized by a 1996 episode, not the military
- risk factor
- denim seams were never meant for this