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Swim with hot skimpy garment: Kate has one! (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

diphthong

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'kate has one' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'swim with hot skimpy garment' is the wordplay.
'swim' becomes 'dip' (dip is a kind of swim).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'hot' becomes 'h'.
'skimpy garment' becomes 'thong' (I've seen this before).
'dip'+'h'+'thong'='DIPHTHONG'

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(Other definitions for diphthong that I've seen before include "Sound combining two vowels" , "the thing in middle of cruise" , "Combination of two vowels" , "Sound of two vowels in one syllable" , "Ligature of vowels" .)

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