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Lycras

Lycras is the plural of Lycra.

Meaning of Lycra

Noun

Lycra (countable and uncountable, plural Lycras)

  1. (uncountable) A type of synthetic elastic fabric and fibre (spandex) used for tight-fitting garments, such as swimming costumes.
  2. (uncountable) Clothing made from such materials, especially with reference to cycling shorts.
  3. (countable) A tight-fitting garment made of Lycra.
    • Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times

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Questions about Lycras

What is Lycras the plural of?
Lycras is the plural of Lycra.

Words near Lycras in the dictionary

  1. lycotropal
  2. lycoxanthin
  3. lycra
  4. Lycra lout
  5. Lycra louts
  6. Lycras
  7. lyctid
  8. lyctids
  9. Lycurgus
  10. lycée
  11. lycées

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lycras (page history and authors); Lycra (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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