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suspendered

suspendered adjective: dressed in suspenders.

Adjective

suspendered (not comparable)

  1. Dressed in suspenders.
    • This was a group of white-shirted, khaki-trousered, suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their twilight days doing same on pine benches under the live oaks on the square.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
    • Guy meets and instantly falls for Molotov (Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer), the bespectacled, suspendered, pistol-packing woman of his electric dreams.2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club
  2. Having suspenders attached.
    • He […] leaned to snag the pair of suspendered britches from his clothes valet near the foot of the bed.2019, Kate Breslin, Far Side of the Sea

Origin of suspendered

From suspender + -ed.

Words formed from suspendered

Questions about suspendered

What does suspendered mean?
Suspendered means dressed in suspenders.
What part of speech is suspendered?
Suspendered is an adjective.

Words near suspendered in the dictionary

  1. suspendee
  2. suspendees
  3. suspender
  4. suspender belt
  5. suspender belts
  6. suspendered
  7. suspenderless
  8. suspenders
  9. suspendest
  10. suspendeth
  11. suspendibility

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