holeproof
Americanadjective
-
(of fabric or an article of clothing) designed or made so as to prevent holes.
-
constructed so as to prevent evasion or subterfuge.
a holeproof document.
Etymology
Origin of holeproof
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But he was smiling when he said it; though a new knitting process makes the stockings runproof, it does not make them holeproof.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, still pulling itself up by the garters, Kayser agreed to pay $13 million for Milwaukee's thriving Holeproof Hosiery Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
In May, Holeproof, Phoenix, Gotham, Van Raalte, other big hosiery mills will start national sales of nylon hose.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had just passed what they believed to be holeproof legislation to replace the punctured, lately-expired Cinematograph Films Act of 1927.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is being measured for a complete outfit of holeproof clothing, and his motor will be a Ford of seventeen thicknesses, with armoured steel windows, and fitted with first-aid accessories, including liniment, restoratives and raw steak.
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
