body-hugging

English

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body-hugging (comparative more body-hugging, superlative most body-hugging)

  1. (of clothing) Clinging tightly to one's body.
    • 2009 October 9, Peter Walker, The Guardian:
      You might think you look great in the full, body-hugging Lycra gimp suit, but chances are your girlfriend disagrees – according to the poll only 7% of the women asked found it a good look.
    • 2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 12:
      I headed east toward Broadway and then down again, bobbing along the rushing river of shoppers, past windows behind which mannequins stood silently, posed in body-hugging T-shirts—“Hottie,” “Fabulous,” “Sexy,” written across the bust.

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