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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
swimsuit
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
wear
▪ She wore a black swimsuit, a huge straw hat with the brim pinned back and a bad-tempered scowl.
▪ She took him to a place called the Loneliness Bar, where the hostesses wore swimsuits treated with a chemical substance.
▪ Some wore swimsuits, others used birthday suits.
▪ Where else can you go at the Olympics wearing a swimsuit, tank top and flip-flops and still feel overdressed?
▪ She wore a burgundy one-piece swimsuit, burgundy high-heeled sandals and burgundy toenails.
▪ Underneath she was wearing a simple black swimsuit with a high neck and wide shoulder-straps.
▪ The same applies to the tops of your legs, especially if you're wearing a high-cut swimsuit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But swimsuits are the attire of the brave and very slim.
▪ Cindy Crawford has said her job is hard because frequent swimsuit changing leads to callouses and scabs.
▪ I get a shirt for the Gay Games at a boutique filled with shirts, shorts, and swimsuits.
▪ In 1995, about a third of the 52 million swimsuits sold for women age 14 and over were two-piece.
▪ She had been to her room and put on one of the swimsuits she had bought.
▪ She was a good swimmer in her blue swimsuit.
▪ She went upstairs, changed into her swimsuit and set off, on foot, for the cove.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
swimsuit

also swim-suit, 1920, from swim + suit (n.).

Wiktionary
swimsuit

n. A tight-fitting garment worn for swimming, especially the one-piece garment worn by women and girls.

WordNet
swimsuit

n. tight fitting garment worn for swimming [syn: bathing suit, swimming costume, bathing costume]

Wikipedia
Swimsuit

Swimwear is clothing designed to be worn by people engaging in a water-based activity or water sports, such as swimming, diving and surfing, or sun-orientated activities, such as sun bathing. Different types may be worn by men, women, and children. Swimwear is described by a number of names, some of which are used only in particular locations, including swimsuit, bathing suit, swimming costume, bathing costume, swimming suit, swimmers, swimming togs, bathers, cossie (short for "costume"), or swimming trunks for men, besides others.

A swimsuit can be worn as an undergarment in sports that require a wetsuit such as water skiing, scuba diving, surfing, and wakeboarding. Swimsuits may also be worn to display the wearer's physical attributes, as in the case of beauty pageants or bodybuilding contests, and glamour photography and magazines like the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue feature models and sports personalities in swimsuits.

There is a very wide range of styles of modern swimsuits available, which vary as to body coverage and materials. The choice of style may depend on community standards of modesty, as well as current fashions and personal preferences. Swimwear for men usually exposes the chest, while suits for women do not.

Usage examples of "swimsuit".

A handful of old-timers played boccie, ignoring the fashion photographers shooting swimsuit models on the porches of the Caribbean shacks.

On a drop-dead-perfect June morning, I traded my tie and briefcase for swimsuit and flip-flops and headed with Marley across the Intracoastal Waterway.

I gazed up through this maroon or oxblood space and saw what I could of her, the dark band of her swimsuit top, her clavicles set forward.

It was like her to surrender to a caprice and come play with us, and I was proud of her youth and vivacity, but I was intensely aware of the brittle stares of other mothers sitting on their stoops, women who could never have squeezed into the swimsuits they had worn as teenagers, and who thought that those who revealed their bodies by doing so were little better than hussies.

Boasting that she was much prettier than those cows she had seen on television last year marching around the stage in their swimsuits, she was positive that, as soon as the judges got a good look at her, they would give her the crown.

Susan mentally flipped through a catalog of Marilyn's seamless dramas, such as the time in the changing room she spritzed a tightly aimed spray bottle of canola oil at the swimsuit of Miss Orlando Pre-Teene after a close call in the talent contest.

Uninhibited, Sherry had placed a long-nailed finger upon her own swimsuit and was massaging her clitty through the fabric.

Then he saw that Deckie had his hand inside the bottom of her swimsuit and he was kissing her shoulder or sucking on it or something, and that's why Celie was laughing and saying, "Stop it, that tickles," and then Paulie understood that Deckie liked it that she didn't have any breasts yet and he knew just what Deckie was and in that moment relief swept over Paulie like a great cleansing wave because he knew now that despite Deckie's beautiful tan and beautiful body and charmed life, Deckie was the sick one and Paulie didn't want to be like him after all.

Celie shrieked and pulled away from Deckie, looking frantically for the top of her swimsuit, which was floating about ten feet out.

Alternatively, you can simply walk over to them, rip their swimsuits off, and do what you like with them.

My brain was racing with all the things I needed for my trip: toothbrush, toothpaste, swimsuit, airplane ticket.

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.

A woman in a one-piece swimsuit walked towards them, a bright beach towel slung nonchalantly over one shoulder.

Her capri pants, her white cotton short-shorts, her two-piece polka dot swimsuit, her fuzzy sweaters.

There was a ping and a swimsuit appeared, its lines a classic for millenia, being mainly designed to cover the trunk and erogenous zones.