Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of overall.
- n. Loose fitting garment worn over regular clothes to protect them.
- n. US, Canada Loose fitting pair of pants with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling.
- n. Waterproof leggings.
Examples
“After a very long wait two blokes in overalls turned up and stared at the water falling from above.”
“Watching Stephen King in overalls chugging a near vertical bottle of hooch is so lol-worthy you will pause and re-wind, I guarantee.”
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“Manning the Democratic Party table at the Arkansas State Fair, he calls out to men in overalls and cowboy hats, to women pushing strollers.”
The Washington Post: As midterm nears, Democratic activist sees fewer friendly faces in Arkansas
“First up: a working man in overalls, sitting on a bench eating an apple.”
“It was a pallid-eyed youth of eighteen in overalls who received Michael, receipted for him to the expressman, and carried his crate into a slope-floored concrete room that smelled offensively and chemically clean.”
“Used in overalls and jeans everywhere today, it was first developed in the sixteenth century Genoa by a French family who came from the city of Nimes, where in English “de Nimes” became “denim” and “Blue Genes” became “blue jeans”.”
“For instance, a “farmhand” in overalls and a straw hat passed by on a unicycle, wanting to know whether I was going to the sack races.”
“For most Mexicans, the Mennonites are tall, light-skinned people, dressed in overalls, who produce their famous cheese.”
Immigrant cooking in Mexico: The Mennonite kitchens of Chihuahua
“An absolutely enormous man in overalls came out of the shadows to meet us.”
“Another white man in blue clothes that I think you call overalls, he was tying a gate closed with bright orange rope.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘overalls’.
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It's Over: A Beginning
Terms that start with the string over-, beginning with overanxious.
Your entries are welcome.
overanxious, overachiever, oversimplified, overdone, overaccentuate, overact, overadjustment, overage, overaggressive, overalert, overalls, overambitious and 138 more...
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AGRI - apiculture
lucerne, HMF, Heather, harvest, glucose, honey, fluid, Erica, Gaucho, microscopic, enzym, tea tree and 183 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
barn, tractor, cow, hay, horse, pig, corn, plough, irrigation, subsidies, crops, plant and 260 more...
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over-
above; upper; superior; eminent
overbearing, overrate, overshoot, overwhelm, overexert, overachiever, overact, overadjust, overambitious, overanalyze, overarching, overbooked and 42 more...
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pants
all kinds of pants
pantile, dopant, flippant, agapanthus, panther, rampant, smarty-pants, pantsuit, pantothen, participant, pantry, pantoscopic and 37 more...
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My Garage
I could start a hardware store, marina, tack shop, antique boutique and autoparts store (just to name a few) with the crap that's in my garage. I'll list some of the "collectables" here -- be pati...
old nova, green, 2 pair of skis, 2 saddles, 3 horse blankets, 2 tack boxes, 2 saddle stands, wicker table and ..., 6 jenny lind chairs, john deer, 3 computers, 3 printers, a table my grandp... and 119 more...
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A Return of Cloathing, Provisions and...
Several of these words may seem misspelled. I copied them that way from the primary source in which I found the list: Salem Gazette, Thursday, Nov. 29, 1781.
The first line in the arti...coats, breeches, shoes, hats, blankets, overalls, mills, bed-cases, pillow-cases, sheets, jackets, caps and 45 more...
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the dressing room
vest, jacket, insignia, toga, fan, mantle, ermine, robe, snap, waistcoat, anorak, chaps and 71 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Captured at Yorktown, 170 "linen overalls," which were actually full trousers (not breeches), used as work clothing, and not what we think of today as overalls. Oct 29, 2007