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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bathing trunks
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was wearing a pair of olive-green bathing trunks, and nothing else.
▪ Neither barber, in their tight-fitting tee shirts and faded bathing trunks, appeared lacking in backbone or mettle.
Wiktionary
bathing trunks

n. A pair of shorts or briefs worn for swimming or bathing.

WordNet
bathing trunks

n. swimsuit worn by men while swimming [syn: swimming trunks]

Usage examples of "bathing trunks".

Tuttle as weight-lifter (in bathing trunks, glaring at the camera, holding aloft the weights he had made from the lead of the dismantled electricity plant at Shorthills).

He wore red bathing trunks and a faded blue sweatshirt with a flung-back cowl.

He was an artist with his little pair of bathing trunks and his balls and his wicked little look and his round ears.

Out of them burst the Lizard Men, with their rippling grey muscles and their metallic bathing trunks and their advanced weaponry.

Wearing nothing but bathing trunks, he presented a powerful presence, all tanned muscle and gorgeous male.

And then they tell me the score and to pack my bathing trunks and my spade and bucket and come on down to Nassau.

Lothar De La Rey came bounding up the wet black rocks, surefooted as a mountain goat, dressed only in a pair of black woollen bathing trunks.

The next afternoon, when he arrived at the club, wearing a terry-cloth robe over his bathing trunks, he brought me a bunch of blue-dyed carnations and a bag of apples.

There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness, his damp black hair or what was left of it, glued to his round head, his little mustache a humid smear, the wool on his chest spread like a symmetrical trophy, his naval pulsating, his hirsute thighs dripping with bright droplets, his tight wet black bathing trunks bloated and bursting with vigor where his great fat bullybag was pulled up and back like a padded shield over his reversed beasthood.

It was low tide, dead ebb, the time when the sea washes back, leaving slick mudflats covered with straggled weed, rusty beer cans, rotted prophylactics, broken bottles, smashed buoys, and greenmossed skeletons in tattered bathing trunks.

I have vivid memories of this dignified old man stripping down to nakedness next to me, his body slowly emerging as he neatly disposed of each item of clothing, decency being salvaged at the very end by a slight turning away and a magnificent pair of imported athletic bathing trunks.

Helen read about the antics of several deviant vicars and lascivious witches, then turned to page 6 and froze, for there, confronting her, was a large picture of Rupert lying on a beach in bathing trunks, eyes narrowed against the sun, glass in his hand, palm trees in the background.

He felt hands pulling off his bathing trunks and then his swimsuit was down around his ankles and his feet were being pulled from it.

Florsheim always looked sloppy until he kicked off his clothes and stood forth in skintight bathing trunks, and then he looked like a pagan deity, huge, brown, long hair about his ears and a wreath of fragrant maile encircling his brow.

She flashed by a startled man in bathing trunks holding a green hose that dribbled water.