Meanings
- attributiveAttributive form of hip-huggers.
Pailletted white pants paired with a white linen jacket and a sequined body suit with hip-hugger pants are some glittering alternatives to the shiny dresses.
1989 December 26, Bernadine Morris, “Into the 90’s With Youthful Wit and Zest”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 20152 more examples
UP in the penthouse of the West Chelsea restaurant the Park on a recent Thursday night, the 20-something host, who looked fresh off the set of “Boogie Nights,” in hip-hugger jeans and a tight decal T-shirt, was obviously stressed.
2001 August 26, Julia Chaplin, “View: I’m Stylish, I’m Single and I’m Not Carrie Bradshaw”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015My father at first resisted the name Linc because it brought to mind the street-strutting, hip-hugger-wearing, vaguely Black Pantheresque character of the same name from TV’s The Mod Squad, […]
2008, Carl Capotorto, chapter 12, in Twisted Head: An Italian-American Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 189
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