What does an atomic wedgie mean?

noun US, slang A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind up to the head and pulled over the head to rest on the forehead, in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.

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When one is still in undewear and someone pulls up on the waistband and tries to pull it over the recivers head.
a super [wedgie] where the goal is to actually get the underpants over the head.
when the underwear is lifted up and over the victims head.
A painful prank where 1 or more people pull the tighty whities of somebody up and over that persons head while they are wearing them, sometimes covering their eyes. This wedges the underwear up their crack, sometimes causing them to cry. It is really funny to watch!
A wedgie that gos over youre head
like a wedgie, you grab the underwear and pull up. But in an atomic wedgie the underwear actually goes over you head
When someone pulls or yanks your underwear up and over your head.
The atomic is a time honoured classic often depicted in cartoons. The atomic wedgie is when ones underwear is actually pulled over the wearers head, whilst still being worn. very difficult to pull off.
Can often cause rectal bleeding.
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I’ve had several atomic wedgies. REAl atomic wedgies without my undies ripping either.

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slang A very severe wedgie, a maneuver in which someone's underwear is yanked up from behind until it is wedged between their buttocks, typically as a prank. Come on, let's give that nerd an atomic wedgie!

n. an instance of pulling someone’s underpants up very tightly—from the rear—so that the cloth is pulled between the victim’s buttocks; a severe wedgie or melvin. I’m going to sneak up behind Bob and give him an atomic wedgie.

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Forcibly pulling a person's underpants

A male receiving a wedgie

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]

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.[3]

Variations

A female receiving a regular wedgie

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 underwear is pulled up from the front, to cause injury, or, at least, severe pain to the victim's genitals.[4]
The atomic wedgie entails hoisting the waistband of the receiver's underwear up and over their heads.[4]
The hanging wedgie is a variant in which the victim is hung from his or her underwear, elevated above the ground.[5]

References

^ Wedgie. Archived 2007-11-18 at the Wayback Machine 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.
^ "Emergency operation after school prank". Yorkshire Post. 2004-12-02. Archived from the original on 2014-01-10. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
^ a b Curran, David (4 January 2007). "Gwyneth And 'The Atomic Wedgie'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
^ Stuever, Hank (2 September 2002). "At School, a Most Uncomfortable Subject". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 13 April 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2009.