to jean
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9.5
- verb
- /dʒin/
- Informal
:
vestir con vaqueros
- After the workshop, he was excited to jean his plain pants and wear something more fashionable.
- blue-jeaned
- jeaned hips
- jeaned legs
Examples
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I say you march that discount jeaned-ass of yours back down the hallway and put it back where you found it!
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Will, pushing the door open with his blue-jeaned hips, then elbowing it closed.
Fiction book (1998) -
Valuable walked past a blue-jeaned group out on the loading dock and listened.
Fiction book (1999) -
Turning, she saw his blue-jeaned legs moving away from her in a run, and she made a grab, bringing him down hard across the Korner's dead neighbors named Runnells.
Fiction book (1999) -
Instantly, the child screeched and scrambled away from him to hide her face against the blue-jeaned legs of a boy near Lindsay's age.
Fiction book (1995) -
The question was how to beat them—what distance to maintain from this mop-headed, blue-jeaned boy.
Fiction book (1995) -
"I don't blame them for taking that first look at me," says Glen Garrett, the blue-jeaned banker in small-town Missouri.
Academic text (1999) -
The tailor will jean the new outfit for the fashion show, giving it a trendy denim look.
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She decided to jean her old trousers, transforming them into a stylish pair of shorts.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb jean comes from the cloth name jean and simply means 'to make into jeans' or dress someone in denim, because people used the fabric name as a verb for making or wearing that kind of clothing.