miniskirt
- noun
- /ˈmɪnɪˌskɜrt/
- Today they are wearing miniskirts and leather jackets in Shanghai.
- wear miniskirts
- leather miniskirt
- black miniskirt
I think girls can style miniskirts to look really cute.
- I think girls can style miniskirts to look really cute.
Examples
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The neighbors said that all she wore was a silver miniskirt and one red shoe.
Fiction book (2000) -
She had really long hair and a short miniskirt.
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I think girls can style miniskirts to look really cute.
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...little miniskirt, walking through the quad.
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Miranda wanted to pull her miniskirt down to make it longer.
Fiction book (1995) -
Everything's easier in a miniskirt.
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Mr. Buckley, do you think miniskirts are in good taste?
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She's wearing a black leather miniskirt that I didn't know she owned.
Fiction book (1994) -
I remembered that we girls wore miniskirts, and bitter cold stung our thighs.
Fiction book (1999) -
She wore a bright yellow miniskirt that caught everyone's attention at the party.
Synonyms
A very short skirt ending well above the knees
Antonyms
How Short
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Miniskirt comes from the prefix mini- meaning 'small' and the everyday word skirt, so it literally means a 'small skirt'. That's why a miniskirt is a very short skirt whose bottom is well above the knees and became a symbol of youth fashion in the 1960s.