swimming briefs

English

A young man wearing a pair of swimming briefs

Noun

swimming briefs pl (plural only)

1. A briefs-style swimsuit such as those worn by men in competitive swimming, diving, and water polo.
   • 2010, Sami Alrabaa, Veiled Atrocities: True Stories of Oppression in Saudi Arabia, page 199:

     Later I called him with Judy's suggestion; he agreed immediately. After all, we would get to swim in a mixed-gender pool, with the women wearing bikinis and the men in swimming briefs.

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