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mini-skirt

mini-skirt is the alternative form of miniskirt.

Meaning of miniskirt

Noun

miniskirt (plural miniskirts)

  1. A short skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level.
    • People who are “switched-on” and can twitch to prove it. And now–the latest—the chest toupee and the mini-skirt. […] For the benefit of those who are neither switched-on nor gear, the mini-skirt is actually a semi-skirt.1966 May 29, Russell Baker, “Observer: London Is I-Cumen In, Sing Cu-Cu”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of mini-skirt

pluralmini-skirts

Questions about mini-skirt

What is mini-skirt the alternative form of?
Mini-skirt is the alternative form of miniskirt.

Words near mini-skirt in the dictionary

  1. mini-roundabout
  2. mini-roundabouts
  3. mini-series
  4. mini-shinkansen
  5. mini-shinkansens
  6. mini-skirt
  7. mini-skirts
  8. mini-stroke
  9. mini-strokes
  10. mini-trench
  11. mini-trenches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mini-skirt (page history and authors); miniskirt (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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