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fanny dippers

fanny dippers is the plural of fanny dipper.

Meaning of fanny dipper

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

Questions about fanny dippers

What is fanny dippers the plural of?
Fanny dippers is the plural of fanny dipper.

Words near fanny dippers in the dictionary

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

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