mankini

American  

[man-kee-nee] / mænˈki ni /

noun

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

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mankini British  

/ ˌmæŋˈkiːnɪ /

noun

1. 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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mankini

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

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

Just ask New York duo Chairlift, who owe much of their new record to the sight of a gorilla-chested Sean Connery leaping around an Irish hillside in a red mankini.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2016

Ian Brookes, of Collins, notes that bikini has spawned words like tankini and mankini - even though the swimwear was named after a place, Bikini Atoll.

From BBC ● May 11, 2013