bikini

A brief two-piece bathing suit worn by women, especially one that exposes the midriff and navel.

Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: " French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer. "

The café where they were gathered, Bikini Beans, was part of a chain whose baristas wear bikinis.

A brief bathing suit covering only the pelvis (equivalent to the bottom portion of a two-piece bikini), worn by any gender.

We high-schoolers didn't understand why death came in the form of a gorgeous young man with muscles in a skimpy bikini.

[…]a group of bikini-clad young men had started a game, and Alex could see why lifeguards referred to men's bikinis as banana hammocks. She made a mental note: No men in bikinis in my picnic issue. She was also, naturally, noticing what the women were wearing. It was, as Mel had said, mostly shorts and cutoffs, halters, cotton[…]

Brief underpants or trousers that reach to the hips rather than the waist.

Boxer shorts, knitted briefs, and bikinis are the most popular styles in shorts, formerly called “drawers.”

Bikini atoll.