bikini

¹

[ bih-kee-nee ]

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

Bikini

²

[ 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).

Bikini

¹

/ bɪˈkiːnɪ /

noun

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

bikini

²

/ bɪˈkiːnɪ /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of bikini¹

1945–50; < French, apparently named after Bikini

Word History and Origins

Origin of bikini¹

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

Example Sentences

Fleshy breasts taunted him from low bikini tops, and fleshy thighs sloped from bikini bottoms.

From The Daily Beast

The new bikini under Perfectly Fit does not appear to go higher than a large.

From The Daily Beast

If you Google your name, a lot of headlines come up like “Jessica Alba Sizzles in Bikini” and stuff of that nature.

From The Daily Beast

She says her posts have changed from flirty Maxim-style bikini shots to controlled images from the waist up.

From The Daily Beast

The whole point of being a pageant queen is to trot around in your bikini to be ogled at while feigning sexual naiveté.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

The first of these surveys was conducted near Eniwetok and Bikini.

From Project Gutenberg

Bikini in 1946 was the scene of the first peacetime tests of atomic weapons.

From Project Gutenberg

Teams of scientists examined Bikini annually from 1946 to 1950 and from 1954 to 1958.

From Project Gutenberg

Bikini Atoll, scientists believed, needed only clearing and cultivation to make it once again suitable for human habitation.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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