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- noun
spandex
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Examples
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If I’m at the cinema the lights will be off but perhaps they’ll have some athletic type in lycra spinning some pedal power to keep the projector going?
Archive 2008-03-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008
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"Non-absorbent materials such as lycra lead to skin infection."
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"Non-absorbent materials such as lycra lead to skin infection."
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There is a slight amount of lycra which is very nice.
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First you’re coveting some DeSalvo and not bothering to keep your own bike in good working order, and eventually you’re throwing your bike down the steps for missing shifts and being ugly like you’re some kind of lycra-clad Ike Turner.
Archive 2008-02-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Fits like a FKN corset which annoys hell out of me but is much tougher than the lycra you get in swim shops.
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And watch the lycra shite - chlorine eats them alive - better to get the cotton jobs.
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The group Blur (who were musically quite classy) came from Colchester and the glam rockers The Darkness are from Lowestoft, just up the coast, a place that cannot ever have stocked a lycra catsuit in its long, long anglo-saxon history, although it may well have a tattoo parlour down near the docks.
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Go shopping for a mask, lycra tights, a cape and hooker boots?
Angels' Blood Countdown: Karen Chance - Curse the Dawn ARC Nalini Singh 2009
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"She was very early into lycra tights," said Snow.
Rewind radio: One block in Harlem; A coat, a Hat and a Gun; Seeksmusic.com | review 2011
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