bikini

[ bih-kee-nee ]
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noun,plural bi·ki·nis.
  1. a very brief, close-fitting, two-piece bathing suit for women or girls.

  2. a very brief, close-fitting pair of bathing trunks for men or boys.

  1. Often bikinis. underwear briefs that are fitted low on the hip or below it.

Origin of bikini

1
1945–50; <French, apparently named after Bikini

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Other definitions for Bikini (2 of 2)

Bikini
[ bih-kee-nee ]

noun
  1. an atoll in the N Pacific, in the Marshall Islands: atomic bomb tests 1946. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).

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How to use bikini in a sentence

  • Following the pattern set by the bikini tests, only a select score of press and radio representatives were admitted.

    The Brain | Alexander Blade
  • The first of these surveys was conducted near Eniwetok and bikini.

    Atoms, Nature, and Man | Neal O. Hines
  • bikini in 1946 was the scene of the first peacetime tests of atomic weapons.

    Atoms, Nature, and Man | Neal O. Hines
  • Teams of scientists examined bikini annually from 1946 to 1950 and from 1954 to 1958.

    Atoms, Nature, and Man | Neal O. Hines
  • bikini Atoll, scientists believed, needed only clearing and cultivation to make it once again suitable for human habitation.

    Atoms, Nature, and Man | Neal O. Hines

British Dictionary definitions for bikini (1 of 2)

bikini

/ (bɪˈkiːnɪ) /


nounplural -nis
  1. a woman's very brief two-piece swimming costume

Origin of bikini

1
C20: after Bikini atoll, from a comparison between the devastating effect of the atomic-bomb test and the effect caused by women wearing bikinis

British Dictionary definitions for Bikini (2 of 2)

Bikini

/ (bɪˈkiːnɪ) /


noun
  1. an atoll in the N Pacific; one of the Marshall Islands: site of a US atomic-bomb test in 1946

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