lab coat

American  

[lab-koht] / ˈlæbˌkoʊt /

noun

lab coats plural

1. a loose, often white, overcoat worn in a laboratory or in a medical setting to protect the clothes from substances that could stain or damage them.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• lab coats
  plural

Example Sentences

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lab coat

Throw on a lab coat, spark a Bunsen burner, and stay close to the eyewash station, but hopefully it won’t come to that.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Varied scenes — a suburban home, a doctor in white lab coat — flash by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

To appreciate Anscombe’s quartet, let’s slip into the lab coat of a scientist.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 7, 2023

Upon further investigation, Ms. Harper encountered a woman in a lab coat and two others wearing plastic gloves and blue surgical masks packing pregnancy tests for shipping.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

She’s wearing a white lab coat, baby blue scrubs, and a tight cap over her head.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers