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  • noun Plural form of singlet.

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Examples

  • Good call, I've not heard an American refer to 'singlets' either.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Some of them were wearing khaki shorts and black singlets and berets; others wore no shirt at all and were carelessly swinging their guns from side to side.

    A Simple Case 2010

  • The subjects, boys except for the two girls in one picture, all wear wrestling singlets, mostly red.

    Capturing Three Worlds Apart William Meyers 2010

  • There was a little boys wrestling match, they were running through the halls in child sized spandex singlets.

    Post Script Kait Em Bird 2011

  • Some of them were wearing khaki shorts and black singlets and berets; others wore no shirt at all and were carelessly swinging their guns from side to side.

    A Simple Case 2010

  • Dozens of caravans and tents already lined the waters edge, a brood of men in singlets playing a game of cricket, the shouts of a hundred kids swimming, camp-fires, kites flying, dogs barking, sausages frying.

    Clovers in her hair Brentley Frazer 2012

  • I wore a reasonably unchanging wardrobe of black jeans and black tops – black singlets in summer, and a grandpa cardigan in winter.

    Archive 2009-09-01 lili 2009

  • In international freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, the rule is that wrestlers must weigh in wearing their competition singlets.

    No more naked wrestler weigh-ins; Leslie to N.C. State 2010

  • I wore a reasonably unchanging wardrobe of black jeans and black tops – black singlets in summer, and a grandpa cardigan in winter.

    Pink! lili 2009

  • Sheldon knelt beside him, the house-boys grouped around, their white singlets and loin-cloths peculiarly at variance with their dark skins and savage countenances, their huge ear-plugs and carved and glistening nose-rings.

    Chapter 3 2010

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