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boiler suit

boiler suit noun: a one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour.

Noun

boiler suit (plural boiler suits)

  1. A one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour.
    • Where Babcock has proprietary technologies, they will be preserved and developed, in so far as they help to give the company an edge over its rivals. But make no mistake, if Parker and Salmon have their way, boiler suits are the workwear of yesteryear at Babcock. Graduates, not grease-monkeys, are...1994 November 5, Ross Tieman, “Yachtsmen on a long-term voyage to recovery”, in The Times, number 65,104, London, page 25
    • The boiler suit was the kind with stud-fasteners rather than a zip.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 19

boiler suit meaning in Tamil and Kannada

boiler suit in Tamil

பணியாள் காப்புடை

boiler suit in Kannada

ಏಕವಸ್ತ್ರದ ಉಡುಗೆ, ಬಾಯ್ಲರ್ ಉಡುಗೆ

Synonyms of boiler suit

Forms of boiler suit

pluralboiler suits
alternative formboilersuit

Origin of boiler suit

From boiler + suit.

Questions about boiler suit

What does boiler suit mean?
Boiler suit means a one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour.
What is boiler suit in Tamil?
Boiler suit in Tamil is பணியாள் காப்புடை. See Boiler suit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is boiler suit?
Boiler suit is a noun.
What is the plural of boiler suit?
The plural of boiler suit is boiler suits.

Words near boiler suit in the dictionary

  1. boiler plates
  2. boiler room
  3. boiler rooms
  4. boiler shop
  5. boiler shops
  6. boiler suit
  7. boiler suits
  8. boiler ticket
  9. boiler tickets
  10. boiler tube
  11. boiler tubes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boiler suit (page history and authors); boiler suit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); boiler suit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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