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lycra

UK/ˈlaɪkɹə/US/ˈlaɪkɹə/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans spoken

Lycra is a stretchy fabric worn for sport. Wear lycra, a lycra top, lycra shorts under everything.

It is a brand name for elastane and is used as the general word in Britain. Lycra recovers its shape thousands of times, which is why it beats anything woven for sport.

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Definitions of lycra

  1. 1nounlycraA stretchy fabric worn for sport.B2

    “The lycra was faded to a colour nobody could name.”

lycra is a fabric.

Where it comes from

Lycra Marketing coinage.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Cycling

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lycra in the wild

  • Panties are made of a variety of materials, including cotton, lace, latex, leather, lycra, mesh, nylon, PVC, polyester, rawhide, satin, and silk.

    Panties

  • The women also sport pink splash-tops and lycra in the summer months.

    Churchill College Boat Club

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.