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English
Etymology
From step + in.
Noun
step-in (plural step-ins)
- (also in plural) An item of clothing which one steps into to put on; specifically, women's panties.
1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 46:‘Doc got that step-in in Memphis,’ the third said. ‘Off a damn whore.’
1934, F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter VII, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book V (The Way Home: 1929–1930), page 315:One of the girls hoisted her skirt suddenly, pulled and ripped at her pink step-ins and tore them to a sizeable flag; then, screaming "Ben! Ben!" she waved it wildly.
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