Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated under or below the thorax.
  • Not quite thoracic in position: as, the subthoracic ventral fins of a fish.

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Examples

  • I suggest to you that having the "correct" subthoracic clothing for U.S.

    Deceptively Simple 2008

  • He's similarly able to show why he disagrees with language Descriptivists who claim that "so-called correct English usages like brought rather than brung and felt rather than feeled are arbitrary and restrictive and unfair" by drawing the following analogy: While it can be argued that the dictum identifying "pants instead of skirts" as the "correct subthoracic clothing for U.S. males" is similarly arbitrary, restrictive and unfair, the fact "remains that in the broad cultural mainstream of millennial America, men do not wear skirts."

    Archive 2006-01-01 Ann Althouse 2006

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