slickers

Just give these three clowns some rain slickers and rubber boots and send them out to help with the clean up.

Capitol Hill hearings into oil spill continues 2010

And to offset these, the browns and greys of the drear days that make the green plants and yellow rain slickers only that much more brilliant.

Archive 2006-08-01 kittenpie 2006

And to offset these, the browns and greys of the drear days that make the green plants and yellow rain slickers only that much more brilliant.

To Every Season, Turn, Turn, Turn kittenpie 2006

Our rain slickers will be the first items we pack.

Rising Lake 2004

"I rather fancy that the men we saw in slickers, sir –"

Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave 1918

"I wish you'd tell me," said the general testily to the aide-de-camp whose particular joy it was to lunch with him, "what the deuce those fellows are doing in slickers on a day like this."

Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave 1918

At ten forty-five a scout patrol in slickers having been sent out reported the supply sergeant not in the camp quartermaster's office, as observed through a window, and the troop officers as having gone for the day.

Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave 1918

At ten-fifteen the troop, having waited an hour, were growing uneasy, and Sergeant Gray was stationed at a window, watching three men in slickers tending a fire of mammoth proportions.

Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave 1918

About nine o'clock we rode back, facing a cold, driving mist, the back of each rider, protected by the shining yellow "slickers," glowing to the one behind him, in the volcano's light, till we were

Time and Change John Burroughs 1879

The meals are all alike -- a potato, a slice of something like bacon, some gray stuff called bread, and a cup of muddy, semi-liquid coffee like that which the California miners call "slickers" or "slumgullion."

Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876