overalls

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English

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Overalls (1)
A denim pair of overalls (2)

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Noun

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overalls pl (plural only)

  1. (UK) A loose-fitting garment worn over regular clothes to protect them.
    Synonyms: (UK) boiler suit, (US, Canada, Australia) coveralls
  2. (US, Canada, Australia) Loose-fitting pants with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work.
    Synonyms: (UK) dungarees, overall
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
  3. (UK, military) Trousers traditionally worn by cavalry.

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Noun

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overalls

  1. plural of overall

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Noun

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overalls

  1. indefinite genitive singular of overall