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# {{context|AU||slang}} The style of mens swimming costume which covers the bottom and forms a pouch at the front, as worn in [[surf lifesaving]] and in swimming races. Used humorously and with a kind of oblique reference to the equipment a man has inside them.[[Category:Clothing]]
# {{context|AU||slang}} The rather revealling style of mens swimming costume which covers the bottom and forms a pouch at the front, as worn in [[surf lifesaving]] and in swimming races. Used humorously and with a kind of oblique reference to the equipment a man has inside them.[[Category:Clothing]]
#: 2006: ''and who could forget his exhibitionism when he stepped out of the sea this week in a pair of swimmers referred to universally as budgie-smugglers.'' — Daniel Hoare, Australian Broadcasting Commission, ''The World Today'' program, 24 November 2006, reporting on the Victorian state election [http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1796509.htm] (and see SMH [http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/budgies-boost-for-qld/2007/02/21/1171733822065.html picture, at right] of Baillieu in the garment in question)

# {{plural of|[[budgie smuggler]]}}
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budgie smugglers

  1. (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "AU" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. The rather revealling style of mens swimming costume which covers the bottom and forms a pouch at the front, as worn in surf lifesaving and in swimming races. Used humorously and with a kind of oblique reference to the equipment a man has inside them.
    2006: and who could forget his exhibitionism when he stepped out of the sea this week in a pair of swimmers referred to universally as budgie-smugglers. — Daniel Hoare, Australian Broadcasting Commission, The World Today program, 24 November 2006, reporting on the Victorian state election [1] (and see SMH picture, at right of Baillieu in the garment in question)
  2. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "budgie smuggler" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.[[Category:Plurals with a red link for singular|budgie smuggler-budgie smugglers]]

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