boiler suit

American  

Or boilersuit

noun

Chiefly British.

1. coveralls.

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boiler suit British  

noun

1. a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them

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Etymology

Origin of boiler suit

First recorded in 1925–30

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Example Sentences

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boiler suit

At the gala on Monday, Bad Bunny — born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — wore a custom cream boiler suit and skirt with puff sleeves, designed by Riccardo Tisci for Burberry.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2022

She did three months training at college before she donned an ill-fitting navy-blue boiler suit and started work at the Fairfield shipyard in Govan, which was then owned by Harland and Wolff.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2018

“When you go in the engine room of a ship, you’re typically gonna put gloves on, you’re gonna put a boiler suit on, you’re gonna do that, because it’s dirty,” he said.

From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2018

Peter has since retired, though he still wears a boiler suit.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2016

The chief lent me a boiler suit, for which I was insufficient, and added an old macintosh presently.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden

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