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plate-carriers

plate-carriers is the plural of plate-carrier.

Meaning of plate-carrier

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

Questions about plate-carriers

What is plate-carriers the plural of?
Plate-carriers is the plural of plate-carrier.

Words near plate-carriers in the dictionary

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

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