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skimpies

skimpies noun: lightweight, revealing garments. Also the plural of skimpy.

Noun

skimpies

  1. (slang) Lightweight, revealing garments.
    • The first thing that came to her awareness was that she was alone in the borrowed bed, wearing nothing but her skimpies.2002, Linda Lael Miller, High Country Bride, page 34

Also used as

skimpies is also the plural of skimpy.

Questions about skimpies

What does skimpies mean?
Skimpies means lightweight, revealing garments.
What part of speech is skimpies?
Skimpies is a noun.

Words near skimpies in the dictionary

  1. skimped
  2. skimper
  3. skimpers
  4. skimpflation
  5. skimpier
  6. skimpies
  7. skimpiest
  8. skimpily
  9. skimpiness
  10. skimping
  11. skimpingly

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