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rubber diapers

rubber diapers is the plural of rubber diaper.

Meaning of rubber diaper

Noun

rubber diaper (plural rubber diapers)

  1. (dated) An undergarment worn over a diaper to prevent leakage through the fabric, similar to plastic pants but made from rubber.
    • Imagine before you now the dear little infant, with clothes wet around the hips, sometimes even up to the neck, not only with urine but stained by feces, freely giving off an offensive urinous and fecal odor combined with a gangrenous fetor arising from decomposition, not desiccation, of the cord....1897, A. C. Wentz, “The Umbilical Cord”, in Adolf Kœnig, editor, Pennsylvania Medical Journal, volume XXVIII, Murdoch-Kerr Press, page 13

Questions about rubber diapers

What is rubber diapers the plural of?
Rubber diapers is the plural of rubber diaper.

Words near rubber diapers in the dictionary

  1. rubber cheque
  2. rubber cheques
  3. rubber chicken
  4. rubber chickens
  5. rubber diaper
  6. rubber diapers
  7. rubber duck
  8. rubber duck debugging
  9. rubber ducked
  10. rubber duckie
  11. rubber duckies

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