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G-string
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G-String G string
English
Alternative forms
en G string
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-G-string.wav US
Etymology 1
Possibly from en girdle-string, attested from the 19th century, but en 1. en
Noun
An especially thin thong worn as underwear or swimwear, with a thin strip of fabric that passes between the buttocks.
en C-string tanga
en 1954 1957 w:Ian Fleming Live and Let Die (novel) Live and Let Die London Pan Books Table Z 59 Her hands snaked down to her sides and suddenly she had torn away the strip of lace. She threw it into the audience. There was nothing now but a single black G-string.
A type of loincloth or breechcloth.
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Translations
especially thin thong thong
Afrikaans: af deurtrekker
Arabic: ar جِي سْتْرِينْج m, ar ثُونْغ m ṯōnḡ
Catalan: ca tanga m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn G弦褲 jī-xiánkù, cmn T字褲 tī-zìkù, cmn 丁字褲 dīngzìkù
Danish: da g-streng c, da g-streng c
Dutch: nl string m
Esperanto: eo ŝnurkalsoneto
Finnish: fi stringit p, fi tanga
French: fr string m, fr tanga m
German: de String m, de Tanga m, de Stringtanga m, de G-String m f, de Minislip m
Hebrew: he חוּטִינִי m khutíni
Hungarian: hu tanga
Irish: ga bídeog f
Italian: it tanga m, it perizoma m
Japanese: ja Gストリング jī-sutoringu Gストリング, traditional Japanese for men ja 六尺褌 ろくしゃくふんどし, rokushaku fundoshi
Korean: ko 지-스트링, ko G스트링 ji-seuteuring
Kyrgyz: ky амербелдемчи
Latin: la perizoma m
Macedonian: mk та́нга f
Maltese: mt tanga f, mt qalziet tal-ħajta m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb g-streng m
Nynorsk: nn g-streng m
Polish: pl stringi nv-p
Portuguese: pt tanga f, pt fio dental m Brazil
Russian: ru тру́сики-та́нга m-p, ru та́нга f, loincloth ru набе́дренная повя́зка f, ru джѝ-стри́нг m, ru стри́нги m-p
Spanish: es tanga m Spain, es tanga f Latin America, es colaless m, es colalé m, es zunga f, es hilo dental m, es gistro m
Swedish: sv string c, sv g-string c, sv stringtrosa c, sv tanga c
Turkish: tr tanga
Etymology 2
Noun
en music A string on a musical instrument tuned to the note G.
Translations
on a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces G
Danish: da G-streng c
German: de G-Saite f
Hungarian: hu g-húr
Polish: pl struna G f
Swedish: sv G-sträng c
en Underwear