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What is a cossie?

What is a cossie? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain) A swimming costume.
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Having swum 1500m in the Serpentine, cycled 43km round Hyde Park in a wet cossie and run till she dropped for 10km, she had been denied a share of gold by what seemed like a dodgy art critic's appraisal of that photo-finish.
Following previous pictures of the new Spidey looking ripped and slinky in his skin-tight cossie, this still is presumably designed to appeal to those who like their action flicks spliced with domesticity.
In New South Wales, swimwear is known as swimmers or cossie and, in Queensland, it is togs.
Since then she's won two Olympic medals and three World Championships, the last of these in 2003, by which time she was wearing a green and gold Aussie cossie.
On a chilly weekday there's no one at all in the pool, but I'm getting a picture, on a hot summer day, of a kind of My Big Fat Classless Picnic Paradise, where everyone's the same in a cossie.
While my grandparents sat rocking with laughter in their deck chairs, I trundled down the catwalk in my cossie, holding a beach ball, bright red with shame.

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