Speedo

Speedonoun

• 1

  A tight-fitting swimsuit, especially commonly worn by competitive swimmers and divers. Usually implies a brief or bikini style swimsuit.

  • I could tell that she was a serious swimmer, because every time I saw her at the pool she was wearing a Speedo of one design or another.
  • She's wearing Mom's teeny-weenie black Speedo bikini, the one Mom wears to show how fit and trim she is.
• 2

  (by restriction) A male swimsuit, very tight fitting and small, brief-style, and not a thong-type.

  • She called down from upstairs, "He'll be out in a minute: he's just putting his Speedo on."

speedonoun詞源 1

• 1

  informalA speedometer, particularly one in a race car or other automobile.

  • You don′t need to change dashboards since the switches and instruments are suited to the V8, although the speedo and tachometer will require modification to adjust them to your V8′s gearing and cylinders.
  • One further advantage of the ‘J’ type overdrive units is that the speedo drive gear on the rear drive shaft of the gearbox can be changed, thereby adjusting the speedo-drive ratio to suit the TR′s 15in wheels.