tin pants

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. heavy waterproof trousers, usually of paraffin-soaked canvas, worn by loggers and fishermen.

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Etymology

Origin of tin pants

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Loggers still wore "tin" pants, calked boots and red hats, but they felled trees with power saws, lived in town, and rode into the woods on buses or in their own cars.

From Time Magazine Archive