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sailor-proof

sailor-proof is the alternative form of sailorproof.

Meaning of sailorproof

Adjective

sailorproof (comparative more sailorproof, superlative most sailorproof)

  1. (humorous) Resistant to damage caused by sailors.
    • Don't throw away those special tools though — 'cause, after all, nothing is absolutely sailorproof!1978, Coast Guard Engineer's Digest, numbers 198-204, page 50

Forms of sailor-proof

comparativemore sailor-proof
superlativemost sailor-proof

Questions about sailor-proof

What is sailor-proof the alternative form of?
Sailor-proof is the alternative form of sailorproof.

Words near sailor-proof in the dictionary

  1. sailor's hitches
  2. sailor's housewife
  3. sailor's mouth
  4. sailor's tobacco
  5. sailor's-choice
  6. sailor-proof
  7. sailoress
  8. sailoresses
  9. sailoring
  10. sailorings
  11. sailorize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sailor-proof (page history and authors); sailorproof (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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