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bikini

noun
🔊/bɪˈkiːni/
🔊/bɪˈkiːni/
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  1. a piece of clothing in two pieces that women wear for swimming and lying in the sun比基尼泳装Topics Clothes and Fashionb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • skimpy
    • tiny
    • string
    • …
    bikini + noun
    • bottoms
    • briefs
    • top
    • …
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    Word Origin1940s: named after Bikini, where an atom bomb was exploded in 1946 (because of the supposed ‘explosive’ effect created by the garment).