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bumfreezer

bumfreezer noun: an Eton jacket or other similar short jacket.

Noun

bumfreezer (plural bumfreezers)

  1. (slang) An Eton jacket or other similar short jacket.
    • Seated at table, eating delicious food brought by European migrant waiters in red bumfreezers, I felt that we were all making a very game pretence of reconstructing Europe.1965, Peter Black, The Poms in the Sun
    • Smaller boys wore short Eton jackets, known as bumfreezers2012, Anne de Courcy, Snowdon: The Biography

Synonyms of bumfreezer

Forms of bumfreezer

pluralbumfreezers

Origin of bumfreezer

From bum + freezer.

Phrases with bumfreezer

Questions about bumfreezer

What does bumfreezer mean?
Bumfreezer means an Eton jacket or other similar short jacket.
What part of speech is bumfreezer?
Bumfreezer is a noun.
What is the plural of bumfreezer?
The plural of bumfreezer is bumfreezers.

Words near bumfreezer in the dictionary

  1. bumfit
  2. bumfluff
  3. bumfluffed
  4. bumfodder
  5. bumfoolery
  6. bumfreezer
  7. bumfreezer jacket
  8. bumfreezer jackets
  9. bumfreezers
  10. bumfuck
  11. bumfuck middle of nowhere

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