Lycra

See also: lycra

English

Alternative forms

• lycra

Etymology

Marketing coinage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaɪkɹə]

Noun

Lycra (countable and uncountable, plural Lycras)

1. (uncountable) A type of synthetic elastic fabric and fibre (spandex) used for tight-fitting garments, such as swimming costumes.
2. (uncountable) Clothing made from such materials, especially with reference to cycling shorts.
3. (countable) A tight-fitting garment made of Lycra.
   • 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

     Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.

Derived terms

• Lycra lout

Translations

an elastic synthetic fabric for tight-fitting garments

• Maori: raikara
• Turkish: likra

See also

• Lycra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carly, Caryl, acryl, clary