hazmat
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of hazardous + material
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhæzˌmæt/
Noun[edit]
hazmat (plural hazmats)
- (US, often attributive) Hazardous material(s).
- Synonym: dangerous goods
- Coordinate term: biohazard
- 2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- No, but one day I got a letter in the mail, I opened it up and a puff of powder came all over my face and my chest. […] They said, “Don’t move, stay in the room.” And they got the hazmat people. So they came, they sprayed me down and all that.
Translations[edit]
hazardous material — see hazardous material
Further reading[edit]
- Dangerous goods on Wikipedia.Wikipedia