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A pair of tight men's swimming trunks generally speedos: Get your dick stickers we're going for a swim.

Contributor's comments: [NSW informant] The origin of this term is clear if you have ever seen a male in a pair of speedos on a cold day. Of course we were never allowed to use the term in front of our parents but that's what they were called.

Contributor's comments: Well known in Melbourne also, where I've spent most of my life.

Contributor's comments: At school in Ballina, far north coast of NSW, we also called speedos "dick stickers".

Contributor's comments: I've only ever known these as "dick togs" or simply DT's, which seems to be a fairly universal name in Queensland.

Contributor's comments: At school, we called them dick togs.

Contributor's comments: "Dick Stickers" is also used in the ACT.

Contributor's comments: Better known as d.t's, as in dick togs in Warwick/Toowoomba QLD.

Contributor's comments: Compare with "ballhuggers", "racers" and "codjocks" from Western Australia.

Contributor's comments: I remember during my teens a friend's mother referring to DPs. When I asked what they were, my friend explained that his mother was too polite to say "dick pokers." I'd heard of dick stickers before, but this one was new to me.


Contributor's comments: I never heard the term Dick Stickers till I visited relatives the same age in Albury who would not be seen dead swimming in Speedo type togs.

Contributor's comments: bathers: "disk-stickers"

Contributor's comments: [ACT informant] They a the swimmers worn under boardshorts: "Got the wetsuit don't forget the dick stickers."

Contributor's comments: We widely used the term dick stickers at school in Sydney (80's & 90's), but also Meat Hangers was a common term. Nobody wanted to be seen in Dick Stickers or Meat Hangers... Only Boardies were cool!

Contributor's comments: As a primary school student in the Riverina in the 70's and early 80's, these were known as Bondi Dickstickers - certainly no local would be caught dead in a pair.

Contributor's comments: I'm from Newcastle and have used the terms Sluggos, dickstickers, budgie-smugglers and banana-hammock.

Contributor's comments: In America (which now own speedos) they call them "speedo" singular -have you got your speedo?