tin pants

noun

(used with a plural verb)

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of tin pants¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Unlike the first travelers to visit here in the early 1900s, we hadn’t come to soak in the hot springs, ride a dog sled or hike the glaciers in tin pants.

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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.

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