fatigues

American  

[fuh-teegz] / fəˈtigz /

plural noun

1. a military uniform worn while performing manual labor or while in the field.

---

Etymology

Origin of fatigues

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Reese has spent the past 15 years in and out of remission with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which often fatigues him, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

At the event, he wore dark glasses and camouflage fatigues, brandished an Israeli-made rifle and shouted revolutionary slogans.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

Rarely, too, does "the old man who saved the country" miss a chance to recall his heroics in the bush wars, sometimes exchanging his trademark safari hat for camouflage fatigues.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

Incessant scrolling, posting and the rapid, gluttonous consumption of that awful word, “content,” fatigues all of us, whether we admit it or not.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025

I half hid behind a coconut palm and watched as truck after truck, filled with men wearing fatigues, roared past me.

From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez