two-centimetre
n.— «“You don’t come here in a two-centimetre (slang for a micro-mini).”…It was here on Sunday that taxi drivers and hawkers joined forces to teach one young woman “a lesson.” Nwabisa Ngcukana, 25, was stripped, sexually assaulted and doused in alcohol for wearing a mini-skirt.» —“South Africans in mini-skirts on the run from macho thugs” in Johannesburg, South Africa Earthtimes.org Feb. 22, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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