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body-hugging en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (of clothing) Clinging tightly to one's body.
   • You might think you look great in the full, body-hugging Lycra gimp suit, but chances are your girlfriend disagrees – according to the poll only 7% of the women asked found it a good look. 2009 October 9, Peter Walker, The Guardian:
   • I headed east toward Broadway and then down again, bobbing along the rushing river of shoppers, past windows behind which mannequins stood silently, posed in body-hugging T-shirts—“Hottie,” “Fabulous,” “Sexy,” written across the bust. 2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 12:

Forms

Synonyms

skintight · figure-hugging

Translations (4)

cmn 緊身 /紧身 (clinging tightly to one's body) · ru обтя́гивающий (clinging tightly to one's body) · fi vartalonmyötäinen (clinging tightly to one's body) · fr moulant (clinging tightly to one's body)