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/θɒŋ/ · noun
A narrow strip of material, typically leather, used to fasten, bind, or secure objects..
2006, Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Thomson, page 108, Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs, shorts and T-shirts.
Because of August he wears shorts and sandals, the Japanese geta sort called thongs.
T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
Thongs are the favoured footwear for many Aussies, especially near the beaches, but most people in the Outback find that they can't put a foot wrong with a tough, nicely worn-in pair or workboots.
You shouldn′t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you've splashed $5000 on daddy's credit card.
She was impressed by her friend's confidence to wear a thong on the crowded beach.
"Another girl bends over to get her books from her locker. Her hot pink thong sticks out of her low-rise pants."
"At her friends' urging, Margo ended up buying a purple thong."
Use thong when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Thong means A narrow strip of material, typically leather, used to fasten, bind, or secure objects..
Common synonyms include list in flip-flop, G-string, butt floss, lash.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
2006, Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Thomson, page 108, Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs, shorts and T-shirts.
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