hip-huggers

British  

plural noun

1. Usual Brit word: hipsters.  trousers that begin at the hips instead of the waist

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Example Sentences

“That was a song about fashion changes in the ’60s with bell-bottom hip-huggers and high-heeled boots and all the different styles of clothes the girls were wearing — hot pants and all that stuff.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2025

She grabbed a pair of $34 black hip-huggers tucked inside a plastic bag.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2016

There were tie-dyed spaghetti-strap chiffon maxi dresses and bead-encrusted every-inch-embroidered body-tracing minidresses; suede hip-huggers with lightning bolts down the side and flowered crochet ponchos dripping fringe.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2014

From the moment in 1995 when model Amber Valletta sauntered down the runway in a pair of blue velvet hip-huggers and an unbuttoned lime-green shirt, one thing was clear: the old Gucci was dead.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2012

And Reinaldo in his hip-huggers: “Like Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby. Sick flick, but she looked great.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides