Wedgie
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A wedgie is the act of forcibly pulling a person's underpants upwards from the back. The act is often performed as a school prank or a form of bullying.
Wedgies are commonly featured in popular works, either as a form of low comedy or as a behaviour representative of bullying. In such works, briefs are usually the type of underpants that are worn by the victim.[1][2]
A wedgie can also occur in artistic gymnastics, particularly females who wear leotards.[3]
Dangers
Wedgies, especially when performed on males, can be dangerous, potentially causing testicular or scrotal damage. An incident in 2004 involving a ten-year-old boy required reattachment of a testicle to the scrotum.[4]
Variations
As a prank or form of bullying, there are a number of variants to the normal, or traditional wedgie. It is impractical to list every variant, as the names and processes can be rather subjective; however, there are a few better-known variants of the wedgie.
- The melvin is a variant where the victim's underpants are pulled up from the front, to cause injury, or, at least, severe pain to the victim's genitals.[5]
- The atomic wedgie entails hoisting the waistband of the receiver's underwear up and over their head.[5]
- The hanging wedgie is a variant in which the victim is hung by their underpants, elevated above the ground.[6]
- The ripping wedgie involves the tearing of the victim's underpants, sometimes ripping off a portion (such as the waistband) of them, or forcibly removing the garment entirely.[7]
See also
- List of practical joke topics
- Wedgies, a 2008 mini series-focused block on Cartoon Network
References
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- ↑ Wedgie. Script error: No such module "webarchive". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2007 via Dictionary.com.
- ↑ No More Bullies, School Counselor Resources.
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