Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins number 10. The word origin today is wardrobe malfunction. All right. Let's take a look at the note here. A wardrobe malfunction is an occurrence when someone's clothes slips, falls, rips, etc. exposing someone's private parts or causing indecent exposure. We see this happen to celebrities very often to be honest the far majority of time I think it's usually female celebrities is where it happens most of the time. All right. Let's continue. The origin of the term occurred in Super Bowl 38. The term was actually coined by the singer Justin Timberlake. So he created it. He came up with this term and it makes you wonder did he just think of it then or was this planned before time. I don't know, but anyway he coined it. He was the first one to say this. To, to try to explain what happened after there was backlash from the incident. While singing the line \"Gonna have you naked by the end of this song, \" Justin Timberlake pulled at Janet Jackson's bustier which they claimed was supposed to leave her red lace bra on but of course one of her breasts was exposed. Okay. So now remember this during the Super Bowl, so the reason there was backlash was because this is supposed to be a family event. So it's supposed to be a lot of young kids there and if this really was planned a lot of people think that this was really not suitable at a family event. So that's why there was a lot of backlash to this and that's why they came out with this term try to explain it like her, her breast was not supposed to be exposed. We do find out that even though, it was exposed and you could see the whole breast the very, very tip where the nipple is supposedly there was a nipple guard So there was a little something just very covering the nipple. Some people may question that too because do they normally wear that ? Is that natural ? It seems like something that would you'd probably only put on unless you were planning this event. So that's why sometimes people question whether this was truly really an accident and truly really a wardrobe malfunction. If some people wonder was the first wardrobe, the first wardrobe malfunction the term was used for, was it really a wardrobe malfunction or was it actually planned ? Or was it really more like a publicity stunt ? That's a good question, All right. But anyway, let's go on. So and also it's you know with the song \" Gonna have you naked by the end of this song. \" I don't know you, you it does make you wonder whether this was truly just really an accident or was it a publicity stunt. But anyway the most important part here is this is where the term came from. So once they started using the term for this one, then in in the future when their other wardrobe malfunctions whether they were real or planned I don't know.The term has often been used for that. So let's continue, All right. So thus the term wardrobe malfunction was born. It means it was created. That was the first time and has been used countless amounts of times ever since. Yeah. It's kind of surprising exactly how many wardrobe malfunctions there are. So does it does it make you wonder I mean have they just increased a lot in recent years or are they just reporting about them more than they used to. I don't know I guess they're both possible or some of them natural I would think probably at least some of them are natural. Are some of them staged ? That's the question. Who knows ? Maybe yes. maybe no. Okay let's continue. There have been so many wardrobe malfunctions. We do have some other ways of calling them, such as a nip slip. So remember nip is short for nipple, so especially if it's a female and somehow her nipple got exposed that they may jokingly refer to it as a nip slip like the nipple slipped out of the dress or whatever the top that the woman was wearing. Ass slip, I guess you know, maybe your pants falls down for some reason. It could be an ass slip etc . Let's continue here. Some famous stars who have fallen victim to wardrobe malfunctions include Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj , Heidi Klum, Ann Hathaway , Jennifer Hudson, Katy Perry etc. and really there's many, many more you could you could look up this. They're too many too, many to count. Anyway, let me know what you think ? You can leave it in the comments whether you think some of these are, do you think some of them are actually staged or do you think that they're all really natural as they are reported ? Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
B1 US wardrobe malfunction nipple term slip nip English Tutor Nick P Word Origins (10) Wardrobe Malfunction 5 0 anitawu12 posted on 2019/05/14 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary