See also: lycra

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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.

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