Crossword clues for boilersuit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
boilersuit \boilersuit\ n. a loose protective smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work. [British]
Syn: overall, boilers suit.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of boiler suit English)
WordNet
n. a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work [syn: overall, boilers suit]
Wikipedia
A boilersuit is a loose fitting garment covering the whole body except for the head, hands and feet. The 1989 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary lists the word boilersuit first on 28 October 1928 in the Sunday Express newspaper. The garment is also known as coveralls in North America, or as an overall (or "overalls") elsewhere, especially in the UK; in North America "overall" is more usually understood as a bib-and-brace overall, which is a type of trousers with attached suspenders. A more tight-fitting garment that is otherwise similar to a boilersuit is usually called a jumpsuit. The " siren suit" favoured by Winston Churchill (but also worn by many others in the UK when air raids were a threat) during the Second World War was closely similar to a boilersuit.
Usage examples of "boilersuit".
A big place, he concluded, having passed twice the same boilersuited men playing cards.
Enderby eyed her bitterly, trying to look like disguised Rosalind in some ridiculous black trendy production of As You Like It, that was to say in peaked corduroy cap and patched boilersuit, but breathing very quintessence of elegance and glamour.
He took off his single boilersuit of a garment and drew from the locker his Elizabethan fancy dress.
Paramedics clad in green boilersuits were maneuvering stretchers around awkward angles, sweaty faces straining from the effort.
Only the night before there had been an item on News at Ten in which Trevor McDonald had been radiant with joy to announce that the Samsung Corporation was building a new factory in Tyneside which would provide jobs for 800 people who were willing to wear orange boilersuits and do t'ai chi for a half-hour every morning.