HAZMAT
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- noun
- /ˈhæzˌmæt/
- Specialized
- Indeed, it only became real when the FBI showed up and took it seriously enough to quarantine the building and stick me into a hazmat suit extra large.
- HAZMAT team
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Watch on YouTubeHe goes out in a hazmat suit.
- He goes out in a hazmat suit.
- He's in a he's in a hazmat suit, a hermetically sealed sleigh.
- Indeed, it only became real when the FBI showed up and took it seriously enough to quarantine the building and stick me into a hazmat suit extra large.
- I had no freak out, but this lady came on the plane dead ass in a full hazmat suit.
- Oh my God, it looks like a hazmat suit.
- Like strawberries, man, they, they wear a hazmat suit.
- So not rescued by white blood cell this time, but by an amine cell in what seems to be a hazmat suit.
- Yeah, like in a, in a hazmat suit, I'm like, dude, you are a pussy, dude.
- I just figured it was the shock of what I was cleaning hitting me and I pushed on even though the chill was strange as I was very hot in full hazmat in June.
Examples
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Get the Hazmat team from Raleigh.
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Always wear protective gear when working with HAZMAT materials to avoid health risks.
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What's with the HAZMAT suit?
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Break one by accident and you pretty much have a HazMat scenario in your home.
Blog text (7) -
Do not attempt to remove the Hazmat suit without proper assistance of authorized personnel.
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This is a cleaning team in hazmat suits sanitizing the White House.
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In one of the departments in the ICU, we have someone in a hazmat suit in full PPE.
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While an environmental health officer need not be present on every call, having the hazmat team aware of public health responsibilities and its capacity to help when hazards may affect a population's health would be highly beneficial.
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We need to call a HAZMAT team to handle the hazardous spill safely.
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The HAZMAT warning sign alerted us to the potential dangers in the area.
Surface Forms
Morphology
HAZMAT = hazardous + material (semi-transparent) = H + A + Z + M + A + T
HAZMAT is a conventional abbreviation combining 'hazardous' + 'material', and its meaning is directly recoverable from those words. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]
Etymology
HAZMAT is a short form of the words hazardous and material, meaning 'hazardous material'. You often see HAZMAT on signs, trucks, and labels to warn people about dangerous substances like chemicals or spills, so it marks things that need special care.