boiler suit

See also: boilersuit

English

Boilersuits

Etymology

boiler +‎ suit

Noun

boiler suit (plural boiler suits)

1. A one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour.
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 19:

     The boiler suit was the kind with stud-fasteners rather than a zip.

Synonyms

• overall, overalls, coverall

Translations

one-piece suit

• Catalan: granota (ca) f
• Czech: kombinéza (cs) f
• Finnish: haalari (fi), haalarit (fi)
• French: combinaison (fr) f
• German: Arbeitsoverall m, Einteiler (de) m
• Hungarian: overall (hu), kezeslábas (hu), munkásruha (hu)
• Italian: tuta (it) f
• Kazakh: комбинезон (kombinezon)
• Maltese: bojlersjut
• Polish: kombinezon (pl) m
• Russian: ро́ба (ru) f (róba), комбинезо́н (ru) m (kombinezón)

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