Etymology

bodycon

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Today it means: Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting. Full definition →

English body conscious
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  1. English · derived frombody conscious
  2. English todaybodycon

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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