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overalled

overalled adjective: wearing overalls.

Adjective

overalled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing overalls
    • A group of overalled men at one of the dozen stained crueted tables looked up briefly as they came in and then resumed their low conversation. Relief crews for the Diesels, Bond guessed.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 119
    • He meant the four other young faces in the picture, two bare-footed girls and a pair of overalled boys.1958, Truman Capote, chapter 9, in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Penguin, published 2008, page 58

Origin of overalled

From overall + -ed.

Questions about overalled

What does overalled mean?
Overalled means wearing overalls.
What part of speech is overalled?
Overalled is an adjective.

Words near overalled in the dictionary

  1. overalignments
  2. overaligns
  3. overalkylation
  4. overalkylations
  5. overall
  6. overalled
  7. overallocate
  8. overallocated
  9. overallocates
  10. overallocating
  11. overallocation

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