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fanny dipper

fanny dipper noun: somebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing.

Noun

fanny dipper (plural fanny dippers)

  1. (US, rare, slang) Somebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing.
    • Thirty-plus years earlier, it was on the beach in front of this building, with its lookout tower and rescue boat at the ready, that the town's earliest "fanny dippers," bathers, and swimmers of varied abilities, first made a practice of entering the ocean "in front of the lifeguard" […]2019, Robert M. Craig, Maryland's Ocean City Beach Patrol, page 7

Forms of fanny dipper

pluralfanny dippers

Origin of fanny dipper

See fanny (“backside”).

Questions about fanny dipper

What does fanny dipper mean?
Fanny dipper means somebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing.
What part of speech is fanny dipper?
Fanny dipper is a noun.
What is the plural of fanny dipper?
The plural of fanny dipper is fanny dippers.

Words near fanny dipper in the dictionary

  1. fanny
  2. fanny about
  3. Fanny Adams
  4. fanny around
  5. fanny batter
  6. fanny dipper
  7. fanny dippers
  8. fanny fart
  9. fanny farts
  10. fanny flaps
  11. fanny magnet

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