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slimwear

noun

Etymology

From slim + -wear.

  1. derived from *slimbaz✻
  2. derived from *slimb✻
  3. derived from *slimb✻
  4. derived from slim
  5. borrowed from slim
  6. suffixed as slimwear — “slim + wear”

Definitions

  1. Fetishwear made from skintight materials such as latex.

    • LATEX RUBBER SLIMWEAR and Leatherwear carefully made to measure.
    • SLIMWEAR AND RUBBERWEAR. Catalogues $1.
    • Perhaps more surprisingly for the 1960s, hidden under the euphemism of slimwear, ski-clothes, skin-diving suits, riding macs and rubber sheeting, fetish clothing was already being widely advertised in the Sunday press […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA