washikong

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washikong (plural washikongs)

  1. (Caribbean) A rubber-soled shoe or plimsoll.
    • 1988, Trinidad Carnival, page 78:
      Costumes are simple, the girls wearing full short skirts, blouses trimmed in swansdown, washikongs or alpagats, and decorated metallic paper crowns.
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