🇬🇧 Thong meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A thong is a kind of underwear or the bottom part of a swimsuit that has a very small, thin piece of cloth at the back instead of regular full coverage. It is made to show most of the person’s bottom, so it doesn’t feel like normal underwear. Grown‑ups might wear a thong at the beach or under clothes so that the lines of their underwear don’t show.

My uncle tried to explain a thong to my little cousin, then gave up and said, “It’s like underwear that forgot half of itself.”

My cousin thought a thong was a headband and wore it proudly on her forehead until Mom nearly fainted laughing.

I asked Mom if a thong was just underwear on a diet, and she choked on her coffee.

I opened the wrong drawer, saw a sparkly thong, and closed it so fast I almost broke the knob.

The word “thong” used to mean a strip of leather or cord—so somewhere in history, underwear and shoelaces shared the same name.

Anna pulled on her bright thong by the hotel pool and checked the mirror. The tiny thong strip showed more skin than she expected. She wondered if the thong would stay put. A friend shouted, tugging the thong gently up when sand stuck. Anna blushed, laughed, adjusted the thong, and they dove into the sea.

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