blue-jeaned
Americanadjective
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wearing blue jeans.
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casual and informal.
Example Sentences
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Born under apartheid and imprisoned for political activities in the 1980s, he made a swift transition from blue-jeaned activist to dark-suited minister and won investor confidence in post-apartheid South Africa.
From Reuters • Jun. 10, 2011
If you're expecting a snappy comeback to the longtime series of "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials put out by featuring the dowdy middle-aged PC and the cool blue-jeaned shaggy Mac, think again.
From Inc • Aug. 16, 2010
The youth of Britain and France have the same blue-jeaned bottoms and fright-wig haircuts as their U.S. contemporaries, and they dig the same big beat and atonal balladry.
From Time Magazine Archive
That goes a long way toward explaining how so huge a company has kept its edge in an industry where key breakthroughs are often made by blue-jeaned engineers working out of their garages.
From Time Magazine Archive
By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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