Meanings
nounfanny dipper (plural fanny dippers)
plural fanny dippers
- USrareslangSomebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing.
Thirty-plus years earlier, it was on the beach in front of this building, with its lookout tower and rescue boat at the ready, that the town's earliest "fanny dippers," bathers, and swimmers of varied abilities, first made a practice of entering the ocean "in front of the lifeguard" […]
2019, Robert M. Craig, Maryland's Ocean City Beach Patrol, page 7
Origin
See fanny (“backside”).
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fanny dipper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fanny%20dipper
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