(UK, Australia) A swimming costume.
“Let's not bother with cossies Jack. Let′s pretend it′s years ago.”She remembered the times they had swum at Eleni beach totally naked, the moon and stars lighting the little waves as they rolled slowly to shore.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(chiefly, NSW, Canberra, UK) A swimming costume (especially a female swimming costume).
(UK, Irish) the garments that one wears when bathing in the sea or a swimming pool, especially the one-piece garment worn by women and girls.
(chiefly, British, dated) The clothes that one wears when bathing in the sea or a swimming pool, especially the one-piece garment worn by women and girls.
(North America, Australia, New Zealand, usually, in the plural) A men′s tight fitting brief swimsuit.
A blend of "costume" and "play," referring to dressing up as a fictional character from anime, games, comics, or films, often at conventions or for photo shoots. Originated in Japanese fan culture in the 1980s and now mainstream worldwide. Used as both noun and verb: you can do cosplay, wear a cosplay, or cosplay a character. Online, the word is also used figuratively to mock people who put on an identity they have not earned, as in "he is just cosplaying as an expert."