raincoat

English

Etymology

From rain +‎ coat.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪnkoʊt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪnkəʊt/

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• Hyphenation: rain‧coat

Noun

raincoat (plural raincoats)

1. A waterproof coat to be worn in the rain.
   • 1987, Sir Raymond Streat, Marguerite Dupree, Lancashire and Whitehall: The Diary of Sir Raymond Streat:

     After standing around in talk for a while, during which time Doris arrived with my hat and raincoat (left with her at the site) we made our way some two hundred strong, up the gracious stone stairway to the Hall of Christ Church, loaned by that College for the celebrationary lunch.

   • 2024 November 9, Maya Yang, “Anti-Trump protests erupt across US from New York City to Seattle”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Speaking to a crowd of demonstrators, some of whom dressed in raincoats while others wore keffiyehs in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly war on Gaza, one demonstrator said: “Any president that has come to power has also let workers down.”

2. (slang) A condom.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom

   • 1993, “Tearz”, in Enter the Wu-Tang, performed by Wu-Tang Clan:

     Moe said he'll go first, I said I'll take next / Here, take this raincoat and practice safe sex!

Derived terms

• raincoat brigade

Related terms

• mac
• mackintosh
• oilskins
• rainjacket
• waterproofs

Translations

waterproof coat

• Afrikaans: reënjas
• Arabic: مِعْطَف (ar) m (miʕṭaf)
• Armenian: անձրեւանոց (hy) (anjrewanocʻ)
• Azerbaijani: yağışlıq, yağmurluq, plaş
• Belarusian: плашч m (plašč), (Polatsk dialect) плаш m (plaš), дажджаві́к m (daždžavík), по́рхаўка f (pórxaŭka)
• Bulgarian: дъждобра́н m (dǎždobrán), шли́фер m (šlífer)
• Burmese: မိုးကာအင်္ကျီ (my) (mui:kaangkyi)
• Catalan: impermeable (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雨衣 (zh) (yǔyī)

• Czech: pláštěnka (cs) f
• Dutch: regenjas (nl) m
• Esperanto: pluvmantelo
• Estonian: vihmamantel (et), vihmakeep
• Finnish: sadetakki (fi)
• French: imperméable (fr) m, imper (fr) m, K-way (fr) m
• Galician: chuvasqueiro m, gabardina f
• German: Regenmantel (de) m
• Greek: αδιάβροχο (el) n (adiávrocho)
• Haitian Creole: padsi
• Hindi: रेनकोट (renkoṭ)
• Hungarian: esőkabát (hu)
• Icelandic: regnkápa f
• Indonesian: jas hujan (id)
• Irish: cóta báistí m, cóta fearthainne m, cóta uiscedhíonach m
• Italian: impermeabile (it) m
• Japanese: レインコート (ja) (reinkōto), 合羽 (ja) (かっぱ, kappa), 雨衣 (ja) (うい, ui)
• Kazakh: кәжең (käjeñ), сулық (sulyq)
• Khmer: អាវភ្លៀង (ʼaaw phliəng)
• Korean: 비옷 (ko) (biot), 우의(雨衣) (ko) (uui), 바바리코트 (ko) (babarikoteu), 레인코트 (reinkoteu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: موشەما (muşema)

• Lao: ເສຶ້ອກັນຝົນ (sưa kan fon), ເສຶ້ອຝົນ (sưa fon), ເສື້ອຄຸມ (sư̄a khum)
• Latvian: lietusmētelis m
• Lithuanian: lietpaltis m
• Luxembourgish: Reemantel m
• Macedonian: кабаница f (kabanica)
• Malay: baju hujan
• Malayalam: മഴക്കോട്ട് (maḻakkōṭṭŭ)
• Maltese: inċirata f
• Manchu: ᠶᠣᡩᠠᠨ (yodan), ᠨᡝᠮᡝᡵᡴᡠ (nemerku)
• Maori: tāpōrena
• Nepali: रेनकोट (renkoṭ)
• Ottoman Turkish: یاغمورلق (yağmurluk)
• Persian: بارانی (fa) (bârâni)
• Polish: płaszcz przeciwdeszczowy m
• Portuguese: capa de chuva f (Brazil), impermeável (pt) m
• Romanian: haină de ploaie f, impermeabil (ro) n, manta de ploaie f, trenci (ro) n
• Russian: плащ (ru) m (plašč), дождеви́к (ru) m (doždevík)
• Scottish Gaelic: còta-froise m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: каба̀ница f

  Roman: kabànica (sh) f

• Slovak: pláštenka f
• Slovene: dežni plašč (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dešćowy płašć m

• Spanish: impermeable (es) m, chubasquero (es) m, capa (es) f (Costa Rica), anorak (es) m
• Swedish: regnjacka (sv) c, regnrock (sv) c, regnkappa (sv) c
• Tagalog: kapote
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เสื้อกันฝน (sʉ̂ʉa-gan-fǒn)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yağmurluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: плащ m (plašč), дощови́к m (doščovýk)
• Venetan: inpermeàbiƚe (vec) m
• Vietnamese: áo mưa (vi)
• Welsh: côt law f, cot law f

slang: condom — see also condom

• Finnish: sadetakki (fi)
• French: capote (fr) f
• Spanish: forro (es) m
• Vietnamese: áo mưa (vi)

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