C-string

English

Etymology 1

Blend of C +‎ G-string

Noun

C-string (plural C-strings)

  1. A woman's scanty undergarment resembling a G-string but having a curved (C-shaped) wire that runs between the buttocks.

Etymology 2

Noun

C-string (plural C-strings)

  1. (programming) A C-style string.
    • 2017, D. S. Malik, C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 556:
      We also said that C-strings are null terminated, so the C-string "Hello" has six characters even though only five are enclosed in double quotation marks.
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