Some people wear board shorts. These are shorts that you go, that you wear at the beach when you go surf long shorts, long shorts. We Australia would call them togs. They're called budgie smugglers. By the way, a budgie is like a pet bird, just like a colorful bird that sings,. You keep it in your house or budgie. Smuggles: To smuggle a budgie across an international border. Well, you'd need to put it in a bag, or maybe you would, uh, stuff it under your underpants. And it looks like you're smuggling budgies.