Wardrobe malfunction

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun phrase 1.2.1 Translations

English

Etymology

Coined by singer Justin Timberlake in 2004 to explain the incident during Super Bowl XXXVIII in which Janet Jackson's right breast was unintentionally bared. The first reported instance occurred on The Price Is Right in 1977, involving contestant Yolanda Bowsley, but the event was not called by this term at the time.

Noun phrase

wardrobe malfunction (plural wardrobe malfunctions)

1. (euphemistic) An accidental instance of indecent exposure caused by a fault in someone's clothing (especially that of a performer) or by an error made while changing this costume.

Translations

• Chinese:
  • Simplified Chinese: 衣橱故障
  • Traditional Chinese: 衣櫥故障
  • pinyin: yichu-guzhang
• Dutch: garderobe defect
• French: incident de garde-robe m, défaut de fonctionnement de garde-robe m
• German: Garderobe von Störung
• Greek: δυσλειτουργία ντουλαπών
  • Roman alphabet: dysleitourgía ntoulapón
• Italian: disfunzione del guardaroba f
• Japanese:
  • kanji: ワードローブの機能不全
  • hiragana: ワードローブのきのうふぜん
  • romaji: wādorōbu no kinōfuzen
• Korean:

  hangul: 옷장 기능상실

  romaja: otjang gineungsangsir

• Latin: malfunctiōnamentum vestimentārium
• Russian:
  • Cyrillic: неисправность одежды
  • Roman: neispravnost' odezhdy
• Spanish: malfuncionamiento del guardarropa m

fr:wardrobe malfunction