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underwear that decided coverage was optional and confidence was mandatory.
means A strip of material—most often a minimal piece of underwear with a thin back strap, but also a flip-flop sandal or a narrow leather lace—that gets its job done with as little surface area as possible.
from From Old English 'thwong,' meaning a thin strip or strap of leather, a cousin of words for binding and twisting. For centuries a thong was simply that: a leather cord for tying boots, whips, or sandals. The skimpy-underwear meaning is a 20th-century arrival, borrowing the old sense of 'narrow strip' and applying it where less is, apparently, more.
- ancient roots
- Loincloths predate them by tens of thousands of years
- whale tale
- Visible thong over jeans earned its own 2000s slang
- down under
- Australians call flip-flops thongs entirely
- sisqo proof
- A 1999 song about them hit Billboard's top three
- line warfare
- Designed to defeat the visible panty line
brazilian thong — swimwear style popularized in rio de janeiro in the 1980s, became global fashion standard
flip-flop thong sandal — footwear with single strap between toes, worn daily by billions across tropical and warm regions
didgeridoo thong — aboriginal australian instrument sound produced by lip vibration, named thong in some indigenous languages