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slimwear en · NOUN

Etymology

From slim + -wear.

Meanings

  1. (dated, euphemistic, uncountable) Fetishwear made from skintight materials such as latex.
    • SLIMWEAR AND RUBBERWEAR. Catalogues $1. 1968, Rod and Gun in Canada, volumes 70-71, page 68:
    • Perhaps more surprisingly for the 1960s, hidden under the euphemism of slimwear, ski-clothes, skin-diving suits, riding macs and rubber sheeting, fetish clothing was already being widely advertised in the Sunday press […] 1996, Nick Sinclair, David Mellor, Anthony Shelton, The Chameleon Body: Photographs of Contemporary Fetishism:
    • LATEX RUBBER SLIMWEAR and Leatherwear carefully made to measure. 1966, Time & Tide, volume 47, numbers 27-43, page 132: