boiler suit
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- noun
- /ˈbɔɪlər suːt/
- UK
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mono de trabajo
- Black, who had piloted the Cessna, held a flashlight to a map of the city and gave monosyllabic instructions to Brown, who drove, while Gray and White quietly slipped into boiler suits in the back of the van.
And I just got chased all over the pitch, you know, with the boiler suit and the boiler suit on.
- And I just got chased all over the pitch, you know, with the boiler suit and the boiler suit on.
Examples
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What is that, a vintage boiler suit or a Jiffy Lube uniform?
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The three men got out of their boiler suits and arranged themselves in the trunk.
Fiction book (1994) -
" He began climbing into a boiler suit.
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If the end of the world is coming, we need boiler suits with pockets to keep our tools and equipment and stuff.
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With masks and boiler suits.
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And then they also had this one which is like a little kind of boiler suit jumpsuit.
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One of them was wearing her dad's boiler suit.
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And I just got chased all over the pitch, you know, with the boiler suit and the boiler suit on.
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She wore a boiler suit to protect her clothes while painting the garage.
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The workers all donned boiler suits before starting their shift in the messy workshop.
Synonyms
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A loose piece of clothing people wear over other clothes to keep them clean
Loose-fitting clothes worn over your clothes to protect them during dirty or heavy work
Antonyms
How Protective
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
boiler + suit
The headword 'suit' clearly signals a garment and 'boiler' as a modifier would likely lead a B1 learner to infer a garment associated with boiler/work contexts (i.e., a work or protective outfit). However, the specific notion that it is a loose one-piece coverall rather than a matching jacket-and-trousers set is not fully derivable from the constituents, so the relation is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Boiler suit may come from the suits worn by workers who tended steam boilers and got covered in soot and oil. The suit kept their clothes clean, so the name now means a loose, one-piece garment worn to 'protect' clothes during dirty or manual work.