washikong

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noun

A rubber-soled shoe or plimsoll.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounwashikong (plural washikongs)

plural washikongs

  1. CaribbeanA rubber-soled shoe or plimsoll.

    Costumes are simple, the girls wearing full short skirts, blouses trimmed in swansdown, washikongs or alpagats, and decorated metallic paper crowns.

    1988, Trinidad Carnival, page 78
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