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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesअटॉमिक वेजी
Native Script:हिंदी देवनागरी
Pronunciation / Transliteration: aṭŏmik vejī
"स्कूल के मैदान में उसे अटॉमिक वेजी मिला।"
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A particularly forceful practical joke in which a victim's undergarment is pulled upward from behind with such immense strength that it is stretched over their head or causes severe discomfort.
"He threatened to give the bully an atomic-wedgie if he didn't return the stolen backpack."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term combines 'atomic', derived from ancient Greek 'atomos' (indivisible) via modern scientific usage denoting extreme power or scale, with 'wedgie', a late 20th-century slang term referring to the prank of pulling someone's underwear upward between their buttocks. Emerging in North American schoolyard culture during the 1980s, the modifier 'atomic' was added hyperbolically to signify a prank executed with maximum, exaggerated force.
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caleçon atomique
Transliteration: kal.sɔ̃ a.tɔ.mik
"Il a reçu un caleçon atomique dans la cour de récréation."
Atom-Unterhosenzipfel
Transliteration: aːtɔm ʊntɐhoːzənˌtsɪpfl̩
"Der Schüler bekam zum Spaß einen Atom-Unterhosenzipfel verpasst."
mutandata atomica
Transliteration: mu.tanˈdaː.ta aˈtɔ.mi.ka
"Gli è stata tirata una mutandata atomica per scherzo."
calzón atómico
Transliteration: kalˈso.n aˈto.mi.ko
"Le dieron un calzón atómico en el patio del colegio."
cuecão atômico
Transliteration: kweˈkɐ̃w̃ aˈtõ.mi.ku
"Ele levou um cuecão atômico dos colegas de classe."
अटॉमिक वेजी
Transliteration: aṭŏmik vejī
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"स्कूल के मैदान में उसे अटॉमिक वेजी मिला।"
原子级内裤提
Transliteration: yuán zǐ jí nèi kù tí
Script: 中文汉字
"他在学校操场上被恶作剧拉了一下原子级内裤提。"
아토믹 웨지
Transliteration: a-to-mik we-ji
Script: 한국어 한글
"운동장에서 장난으로 아토믹 웨지를 당했다."
アトミック・ウェッジ
Transliteration: atomikku wejji
Script: 日本語
"校庭でアトミック・ウェッジをかけられた。"
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