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plate-carrier

plate-carrier noun: a kind of bulletproof vest.

Noun

plate-carrier (plural plate-carriers)

  1. A kind of bulletproof vest.
  2. (historical) A thin black frame used to hold a photographic plate in early cameras.
    • The cases of ammunition and of food were scattered about in a wild litter, together with our unfortunate cameras and plate-carriers, but none of them were missing.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of plate-carrier

pluralplate-carriers

Questions about plate-carrier

What does plate-carrier mean?
Plate-carrier means a kind of bulletproof vest.
What part of speech is plate-carrier?
Plate-carrier is a noun.
What is the plural of plate-carrier?
The plural of plate-carrier is plate-carriers.

Words near plate-carrier in the dictionary

  1. plate spinning
  2. plate tectonics
  3. plate up
  4. plate wheel
  5. plate wheels
  6. plate-carrier
  7. plate-carriers
  8. plate-glass
  9. plate-glass universities
  10. plate-glass university
  11. plate-out

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