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mankini
 n.— «Jack has just walked out of the ocean—though human, he lives underwater, in Atlantis—and he’s having immense difficulties breathing up here in the Topworld. Oh, there’s another thing, too—all Jack is wearing is a “tiny blue mankini.”» —“‘Jack Fish’: The Assassin From Atlantis” by Henry Alford New York Times Jan. 23, 2005. (: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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