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1. A tongue-in-cheek term for a bikini with only the bottoms being worn. 2. A Chinese-made one-piece bathing suit, typically purchased for around $10 on eBay, Amazon, or any number of other sites that facilitate mail-order purchases from China. For whatever reason, Chinese vendors seem to believe that "monokini" is the proper term for a one-piece bathing suit, and use it extensively in item descriptions. When this definition is used, "monokini" is pronounced as though it were a Japanese word, to distinguish it from the other definition. Why Japanese, when this is a Chinese phenomenon? Probably because they're both Engrish parent languages, and "monokini" looks like a Japanese word?
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