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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coveralls
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Brand stood before the judge in blue jail coveralls and leg irons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Big butts of pear-shaped gents in coveralls lined up on the stools like the 1938 Chicago Bears as seen by Bronko Nagurski.
▪ He had forgotten to take off the white coveralls.
▪ Later two cattle trucks came, and the drivers put coveralls over their regular clothes and hazed the yearlings into the trucks.
▪ One creative solution: workers were issued coveralls without pockets.
▪ She took her hip flask from her coveralls and emptied it in one long gulp.
▪ Then he straightened and dusted invisible grains of dirt from the knees of his coveralls.
▪ They stepped into yellow coveralls, hosed the boat.
▪ They were tired and despondent, stooped in their waterproof coveralls.
Wiktionary
coveralls

n. (context US English) A coverall.

Usage examples of "coveralls".

Both were peering toward the gate in the fence as it opened to admit a party of guards surrounding three new arrivals, their blue coveralls ashine with recent laundering, their fronts covered with bits of technological debris, every scrap polished to a metallic gleam.

She begari undoing the long row of buttons down the front of her coveralls and shrugged out of the garment, then unfastened and stepped out of her underwear.

He hung the coveralls and parka carefully, and set the boots out by the coatrack, making sure all was neat and orderly, placing each item where it belonged.

The invaders--unwashed, unshaven, red-eyed--wore blue coveralls with golden cogwheel patches.

They were so fully human, with no slightest trace of genetic modification, that Sam hardly needed their shocked recoil, nor their blue coveralls and golden cogwheel patches, to tell that they were Engineers.

Many of the marchers, but by no means all, wore the blue coveralls and cogwheel patches of Engineers.

Most of the settlers contented themselves with the coveralls and work clothes the Project provided, along with shifts, tunics, and pants that were easy to make from imported fabrics, but lately a few were wearing slightly dressier clothes.

Ahman and Sammy were in their coveralls, carrying the automatic weapons, left hands clamped on the forestock, right hands around the trigger assembly, long curved clips in place.

He looked particularly goony today, clad in coveralls like those worn by most shippers instead of his usual suit.

The men pulled helmetlike Shm-1 protective masks over their heads and faces before donning the L-1 coveralls.

Besides the gloves, helmet and pack, he wore coveralls, kneepads, high socks and climbing boots.

The beam was dull blue, not enough to even make her blink, though a brief bright yellow flame flared at the edge of the melted fabric of his supposedly nonflammable coveralls, then winked out.

He wore lightweight coveralls, borrowed plimsoles, and was no longer handcuffed.

He took his eyes away from the Powers and saw another shuttle waiting, a smaller four-seater, driven by an impatient man in Starbright coveralls.

She, too, stunk of ozone and sweat and her coveralls were covered in grease and blood, hers and others.