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n. A one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour.
Usage examples of "boiler suit".
I took off the brown leather American fighter pilot's jacket that I had won in a poker game in Kampala in '54, clambered out of the boiler suit which I wore over an old pair of corduroys from the Army and Navy Stores and a copy of a Daks shirt made for me by a Malay tailor in Singapore's Orchard Road.
I don't know what J would have done without the old guy in his boiler suit.
He had found some bargeman's coat, which hid the holes torn in his boiler suit and the dreadful bruises they revealed.
The bottom of his boiler suit was belted with a length of rope, since only a few tattered strands remained from the suit's top part.
Her waist was a full four inches slimmer than he'd thought--- must be the damned boiler suit she wore to work, Nomuri thought at once--- and her breasts filled the bra to perfection.
Her waist was a full four inches slimmer than he'd thought -- must be the damned boiler suit she wore to work, Nomuri thought at once -- and her breasts filled the bra to perfection.
Ten miles away on the far side of Weissenberg, outside a blacksmith's forge and mechanic's workshop with faded signs advertising oil and tires and an antiquated gasoline pump in front, the driver of the battered truck that had just had been towed in was arguing with a man in a leather cap and grease-stained boiler suit.
Above us in a boiler suit 'dhobied' almost white was the tall one-stripe hooky.
She was now dressed in a scarlet boiler suit and silver trainers, and stood about five feet two in them.
Even now, dressed in a paint-splattered blue boiler suit, she looked tremendous.
A policeman wearing a gray boiler suit and elbow-length plumber's gloves was furiously working away with a snake as he tried to clear a blockage in the drain of the tub.