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bodycon

bodycon adjective: figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.

bodycon: figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting
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Adjective

bodycon (comparative more bodycon, superlative most bodycon)

  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.2016 November 28, Hadley Freeman, “Melania Trump wants to be a ‘traditional’ first lady like Betty Ford. Good luck with that”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2016

Forms of bodycon

comparativemore bodycon
superlativemost bodycon
alternative formbody-con
alternative formbody con

Origin of bodycon

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.

Questions about bodycon

What does bodycon mean?
Bodycon means figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.
What part of speech is bodycon?
Bodycon is an adjective.

Words near bodycon in the dictionary

  1. bodychecked
  2. bodychecking
  3. bodychecks
  4. bodycolor
  5. bodycolour
  6. bodycon
  7. Bodycote
  8. bodycount
  9. bodycounts
  10. bodye
  11. bodyes

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