gallused

English

Etymology

From gallus +‎ -ed.

Adjective

gallused (not comparable)

1. (of trousers) Having galluses (braces/suspenders); held up by galluses.
   • 1987, Hardin E. Taliaferro, The Humor of H.E. Taliaferro, page 52:

     But Ham, carrying two jugs hung across his shoulders by a greasy leather strap and wearing pants “gallused” up to his crotch, never loses his good humor.

   • 2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 4, in At Swim, Two Boys:

     The usual must of the school commons was thickened with the sweat of unclothing. Over the benches lay shirts and gallused trousers, and the chatter and chaff was like many drums and many fifes and many boys and mayhem.

Derived terms

• one-gallused