"fanny dipper" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fanny dippers [plural]
Etymology: See fanny (“backside”). Head templates: {{en-noun}} fanny dipper (plural fanny dippers)
  1. (US, slang, rare) Somebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing. Tags: US, rare, slang
    Sense id: en-fanny_dipper-en-noun-f7Gjjtwi Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2019, Robert M. Craig, Maryland's Ocean City Beach Patrol, page 7:",
          "text": "Thirty-plus years earlier, it was on the beach in front of this building, with its lookout tower and rescue boat at the ready, that the town's earliest \"fanny dippers,\" bathers, and swimmers of varied abilities, first made a practice of entering the ocean \"in front of the lifeguard\" […]",
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        "Somebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing."
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        "(US, slang, rare) Somebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing."
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        "Somebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing."
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        "(US, slang, rare) Somebody who enters a body of water for recreational swimming or bathing."
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