Meaning & use
drawer
A box-shaped storage compartment that slides in and out of a piece of furniture such as a desk.
See it in a sentence
He kept his socks neatly folded in the top drawer of the dresser.
She searched every drawer in the kitchen before finally finding the missing scissors.
A note on using this word
Drawer is pronounced with two syllables, unlike 'draw'; the plural 'drawers' can also mean old-fashioned underwear informally.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
An informal, old-fashioned term for a piece of underwear worn on the lower body.
Grandfather still called his underpants his 'drawers,' a term from his childhood.
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