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bodycon

The English word “bodycon” has 1 meaning listed here.

adjective

  1. Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.

Etymology

From Japanese ボディコン (bodikon) (clipping of English body conscious), name of a fashion subculture among young Japanese women in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s.

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