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microskirt

microskirt noun: an extremely short miniskirt with its hemline at the upper thigh, at or just below crotch or underwear level.

Noun

microskirt (plural microskirts)

  1. An extremely short miniskirt with its hemline at the upper thigh, at or just below crotch or underwear level.
    • The girls were slender, delectable in stacked heels and shiny clothes that glowed in the dark. One of them wore a microskirt, and he could see the tops of black or navy thigh-highs as he stopped to pick them up.1999, James Patterson, Pop Goes the Weasel, Headline, →ISBN

Forms of microskirt

pluralmicroskirts

Origin of microskirt

From micro- + skirt, by analogy with miniskirt.

Words formed from microskirt

Questions about microskirt

What does microskirt mean?
Microskirt means an extremely short miniskirt with its hemline at the upper thigh, at or just below crotch or underwear level.
What part of speech is microskirt?
Microskirt is a noun.
What is the plural of microskirt?
The plural of microskirt is microskirts.

Words near microskirt in the dictionary

  1. micrositing
  2. microsize
  3. microsized
  4. microskill
  5. microskills
  6. microskirt
  7. microskirted
  8. microskirts
  9. microsleep
  10. microsleeps
  11. microslice

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