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Bi·ki·ni

 (bĭ-kē′nē)
An atoll in the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The area was the site of US nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958, including the first aerial detonation of a hydrogen bomb (May 21, 1956).

bi·ki·ni

 (bĭ-kē′nē)
n. pl. bi·ki·nis
1.
a. A very brief, close-fitting two-piece bathing suit worn by women.
b. A very brief, close-fitting bathing suit worn by men.
2. often bikinis Brief underpants that reach to the hips rather than to the waist.

[French, after Bikini.]

bi·ki′nied (-nēd) adj.
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bikini

(bɪˈkiːnɪ)
n, pl -nis
(Clothing & Fashion) a woman's very brief two-piece swimming costume
[C20: after Bikini atoll, from a comparison between the devastating effect of the atomic-bomb test and the effect caused by women wearing bikinis]

Bikini

(bɪˈkiːnɪ)
n
(Placename) an atoll in the N Pacific; one of the Marshall Islands: site of a US atomic-bomb test in 1946
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bi•ki•ni

(bɪˈki ni)

n., pl. -nis.
1. a very brief, close-fitting, two-piece bathing suit for women.
2. a very brief, close-fitting bathing suit for men.
3. Often, bikinis. underwear briefs fitted low on the hip.
[1945–50; < French, appar. after Bikini]
bi•ki′nied, adj.

Bi•ki•ni

(bɪˈki ni)

n.
an atoll in the N Pacific, in the Marshall Islands: atomic bomb tests 1946. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Bikini - an atoll in the Marshall Islands; formerly used by the United States as a site for testing nuclear weapons
Marshall Islands - a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia
2.bikini - a woman's very brief bathing suitbikini - a woman's very brief bathing suit  
bathing costume, bathing suit, swimming costume, swimsuit, swimwear - tight fitting garment worn for swimming
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Translations
بيكينيثَوْب سِباحَه بيكيني
bikinydvojdílné plavkyplavky
bikini
bikinit
bikini
bikini
bikini
ビキニ
비키니
bikinis
bikini
bikiny
bikini
บิกินี่
áo tắm hai mảnh

bikini

[bɪˈkiːnɪ]
A. Nbikini m (f in Arg)
B. CPD bikini bottom(s) N(PL)parte f de abajo del bikini, braga f del bikini
bikini line Nentrepierna f
bikini top Nparte f de arriba del bikini
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bikini

[bɪˈkiːni] nbikini® mbikini bottoms nplbas m de bikini®bikini briefs nplminislip mbikini line nligne f du maillot, maillot mbikini top nhaut m de bikini®
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bikini

nBikini m; bikini lineBikinilinie f; bikini wax kosmetische Wachsbehandlung der Bikinizone am Unterleib zur Entfernung von überstehenden Schamhaaren
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bikini

[bɪˈkiːnɪ] nbikini m inv
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bikini

(biˈkiːni) noun
a brief two-piece swimming costume for women.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

bikini

بيكيني plavky bikini Bikini μπικίνι bikini bikinit bikini bikini bikini ビキニ 비키니 bikini bikini bikini biquíni бикини bikini บิกินี่ bikini áo tắm hai mảnh 比基尼泳装
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A few outsiders were even allowed brief entry into one cell, where they gazed at the occupant's meager possessionsa plastic bottle of hand lotion, five rolls of stacked toilet paper, a bikinied centerfold.
But the photographs served only as the ground for figures to come: With marker and paint, Edelson went to work on them, transforming herself into a cast of fantastic characters--in one (Burning Bright), she becomes a tiger, while in another she dons the bikinied costume of TV's Wonder Woman.
But he's got his eyes open, and he can see the legs and the red and the blue-and-white polka dot bikinied bottoms of Angela Ryan and Mary Hobbes, pale through the weak gelatinous light.
It's known for its surfing festivals, bikinied beauties and its fishing.
Confronted by the image of sexualized, bikinied foreign tourists and by an increasingly demanding Spanish femininity, the Spanish macho is often puzzled: he simply fails to deliver.
Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)--I will demonstrate that fears of the atomic bomb are eventually displaced onto the seemingly good and unthreatening bikinied body.
In recent years in Italy, ever more X-rated reports have emerged from within the red-velvet or tiger-printed boudoir walls of Berlusconi's playboy mansions in Rome, Milan and Sardinia: A Czech politician was photographed poolside visibly at attention, standing over a supine bikinied body,.
Maybe it was the heat exhaustion or the fact that we sighted bikinied tourists about as frequently as the striped iguanas that sunbathed on the 'highway', but there was a refreshingly 'hippie' vibe to the place that resonated with our troupe's hitherto sagging spirits.
There's also the "sexy" approach: from bikinied women draped across old-fashioned convertibles to buff and shirtless New York City firefighters, calendars are often an excuse for all kinds of eye candy--in Italy gondoliers and even priests often make the pages of touristy calendars.
What is redacted here is not information in a file but the identity of a bikinied woman in the water--her privacy protected by a black bar--and then the title of the film, "The Prisoner," is shown next to the man with the camera, now posing as a muscleman on the beach, an image rendered as an animated silhouette (the animations were done by co-director Epperlein).
We encountered them among the mix of athletic young men, scantily-clad bikinied young women and their flabby-bodied decadent elders at the hot springs at el-Himmeh (Himmat Ghader in Hebrew, the old shared border point of Syria, Jordan and Palestine at the southern end of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, the whole area having been declared unilaterally by Israel as its own, an integral part of the Land of Israel).