Bodycon

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.

    "She has, of late, tried to tone down her usual fembot style – all bodycon dresses and pointed shoulders – with more interesting looks: a jumpsuit here, a pussybow there, a fluted sleeve there."

Synonyms

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close-fittingskintightsnug

Example

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"She has, of late, tried to tone down her usual fembot style – all bodycon dresses and pointed shoulders – with more interesting looks: a jumpsuit here, a pussybow there, a fluted sleeve there."

Etymology

From Japanese ボディコン (bodikon) (clipping of English body conscious), name of a fashion subculture among young Japanese women in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s.

Related phrases

figure huggingform fitting

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