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boiler suits

boiler suits is the plural of boiler suit.

Meaning of boiler suit

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

Questions about boiler suits

What is boiler suits the plural of?
Boiler suits is the plural of boiler suit.

Words near boiler suits in the dictionary

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

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