mankini

American

[man-kee-nee] / mænˈki ni /

noun

a man’s one-piece bathing suit cut in a deep V-shape, covering the crotch and extending up to form shoulder straps.

mankini British

/ ˌmæŋˈkiːnɪ /

noun

a man's swimming costume consisting of a narrow V-shaped piece of material extending from the crotch to the shoulders

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Etymology

Origin of mankini

< man + (bi)kini

Example Sentences

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Dorchester Town player-manager Ashley Vickers was sent off in a 2011 Blue Square Bet South game against Havant & Waterlooville for tackling a pitch invader dressed in a mankini.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2025

A mankini ban has been credited with helping to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2019

The word “wife,” charged with the frisson of a lime-green mankini, quietly exaggerates our dependence on fixed ideas of one another.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2019

Yet this is the element of middle age that is always the most ridiculed – the mankini, the weekend warrior, the mutton dressed as lamb.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2019

Colin Firth, master of quiet repression on screen, is ready to wear a mankini.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2016

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