"G-string" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: G-strings [plural]
Etymology: Possibly from girdle-string, attested from the 19th century, but uncertain. Etymology templates: {{m|en|girdle-string}} girdle-string, {{unc|en|nocap=1}} uncertain Head templates: {{en-noun}} G-string (plural G-strings)
  1. A scanty covering for the genitalia, with a thin strip of fabric that passes between the buttocks. Translations (a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie): deurtrekker (Afrikaans), جِي سترينج (Arabic), ثُونْغ (ṯūnḡ) (Arabic), tanga [masculine] (Catalan), G弦褲 (Chinese Mandarin), G弦裤 (jī-xiánkù) (Chinese Mandarin), T字褲 (Chinese Mandarin), T字裤 (tī-zìkù) (Chinese Mandarin), 丁字褲 (Chinese Mandarin), 丁字裤 (dīngzìkù) (Chinese Mandarin), g-streng [common-gender] (Danish), string [masculine] (Dutch), ŝnurkalsoneto (Esperanto), stringit [plural] (Finnish), tanga (Finnish), string [masculine] (French), tanga [masculine] (French), String [masculine] (German), Tanga [masculine] (German), Stringtanga [masculine] (German), G-String [feminine, masculine] (German), Minislip [masculine] (German), חוטיני (ḥutíni) [masculine] (Hebrew), tanga (Hungarian), bídeog [feminine] (Irish), tanga [masculine] (Italian), perizoma [masculine] (Italian), Gストリング (jī-sutoringu) (Japanese), 六尺褌 (alt: ろくしゃくふんどし, rokushaku fundoshi) [Japanese, traditional] (Japanese), 지스트링 (ji-seuteuring) (Korean), G스트링 (ji-seuteuring) (Korean), perizoma [masculine] (Latin), та́нга (tánga) [feminine] (Macedonian), tanga [feminine] (Maltese), qalziet tal-ħajta [masculine] (Maltese), g-streng [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), g-streng [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), stringi [nonvirile] (Polish), tanga [feminine] (Portuguese), fio dental [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), тру́сики-та́нга (trúsiki-tánga) [masculine, plural] (Russian), та́нга (tánga) [feminine] (Russian), набе́дренная повя́зка (nabédrennaja povjázka) (english: loincloth) [feminine] (Russian), джи-стри́нг (dži-stríng) [masculine] (Russian), стри́нги (stríngi) [masculine, plural] (Russian), tanga [Spain, masculine] (Spanish), tanga [Latin-America, masculine] (Spanish), colaless [masculine] (Spanish), colalé [masculine] (Spanish), zunga [feminine] (Spanish), hilo dental (Spanish), string (Swedish), g-string (Swedish), stringtrosa (Swedish), tanga (Swedish), tanga (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-G-string-en-noun-gD1Gpj4B Disambiguation of 'a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie': 98 2
  2. A type of loincloth or breechcloth. Categories (topical): Underwear Synonyms: loincloth, tanga, thong Related terms: fundoshi
    Sense id: en-G-string-en-noun-2A9r7qU3 Disambiguation of Underwear: 32 59 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: G-strings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} G-string (plural G-strings)
  1. (music) On a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces the note of G. Categories (topical): Music Synonyms: G string Translations (on a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces G): G-streng [common-gender] (Danish), G-Saite [feminine] (German), g-húr (Hungarian), G-sträng [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-G-string-en-noun-IU6MCaQe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 21 63 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

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Alternative forms

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      },
      "expansion": "girdle-string",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "uncertain",
      "name": "unc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from girdle-string, attested from the 19th century, but uncertain.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "G-strings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "G-string (plural G-strings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fundoshi"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: C-string"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scanty covering for the genitalia, with a thin strip of fabric that passes between the buttocks."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scanty",
          "scanty"
        ],
        [
          "genitalia",
          "genitalia"
        ],
        [
          "fabric",
          "fabric"
        ],
        [
          "buttocks",
          "buttocks"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:G-string."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of loincloth or breechcloth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "loincloth",
          "loincloth"
        ],
        [
          "breechcloth",
          "breechcloth"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "loincloth"
    },
    {
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "word": "thong"
    },
    {
      "word": "G string"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "deurtrekker"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "جِي سترينج"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṯūnḡ",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "ثُونْغ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "G弦褲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jī-xiánkù",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "G弦裤"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "T字褲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tī-zìkù",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "T字裤"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "丁字褲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dīngzìkù",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "丁字裤"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "g-streng"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "g-streng"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "string"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "ŝnurkalsoneto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "stringit"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "string"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "String"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Stringtanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "G-String"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Minislip"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ḥutíni",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "חוטיני"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bídeog"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "perizoma"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jī-sutoringu",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "Gストリング"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ろくしゃくふんどし, rokushaku fundoshi",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "raw_tags": [
        "for men"
      ],
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "Japanese",
        "traditional"
      ],
      "word": "六尺褌"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ji-seuteuring",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "지스트링"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ji-seuteuring",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "G스트링"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "perizoma"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tánga",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "та́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "qalziet tal-ħajta"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "g-streng"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "g-streng"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "nonvirile"
      ],
      "word": "stringi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fio dental"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trúsiki-tánga",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "тру́сики-та́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tánga",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "та́нга"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "loincloth",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nabédrennaja povjázka",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "набе́дренная повя́зка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dži-stríng",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "джи-стри́нг"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "stríngi",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "стри́нги"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "Latin-America",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colaless"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colalé"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zunga"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "hilo dental"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "string"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "g-string"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "stringtrosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "tanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a scanty piece of underwear or lingerie",
      "word": "tanga"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "G-string"
  ],
  "word": "G-string"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "en:Underwear"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "G-strings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "G-string (plural G-strings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "On a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces the note of G."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) On a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces the note of G."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "G string"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "on a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces G",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "G-streng"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "on a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces G",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "G-Saite"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "on a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces G",
      "word": "g-húr"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "on a stringed musical instrument, the string that produces G",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "G-sträng"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "G-string"
  ],
  "word": "G-string"
}

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