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noun

G-string n.

A patch of cloth attached to and supported by string-like cords, worn over the hips, and serving to cover only the pubic area; often worn by stripteasers.

Synonyms: thong, merkin.

A small covering for the loins.

Synonyms: breechcloth, breechclout, loincloth.

(Physics) A transmission line consisting a single wire coated with dielectric, thus permitting surface-wave propagation. (slang)

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Etymology of 'G-string'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"G-string" Quotes from Famous Books

... of his selves, in the sketches he is many of them. Perhaps this is why he officially spoke slightingly of them at times, why he walked in some days, flung down a manuscript, and said: "Here's a rotten story." Yet it must be that he found pleasure in playing the whole scale, in hopping from the G-string to the E-, in surprising his public each day with a new whim or a recently discovered broken image. I suspect, anyhow, that he delighted in making his editor stare and fumble in ...

— A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago • Ben Hecht