Crossword clues for overalls
overalls
- Part of a Mario Brothers costume
- Ranch dressing?
- Agricultural outfit
- Protection for certain painters
- Workmen's wear
- Duds for a farmer
- Protective garb
- Shop wear
- Spoilers of Mrs. Murphy's chowder
- Garment a minister pulled up in open-topped car
- Female, first of two ladies in extra large clothing
- Like the supreme ruler with the ultimate in sumptuous loose attire
- In general, small clothes
- Protective clothing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overalls \O"ver*alls\, n. pl.
A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling.
Waterproof leggings.
--R. D. Blackmore.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see overall. Compare French surtout "overcoat," literally "an over all," from sur- "over" + tout "all."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of overall English) 2 (qualifier: not US or Canada) loose fitting garment worn over regular clothes to protect them. 3 (qualifier US Canada) Loose fitting pair of pants with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work.
Usage examples of "overalls".
A sweater, a corduroy hat, corduroy overalls, a T-shirt, an undershirt, rubber pants, and diaper.
The sweater, hat, overalls, and booties have brand labels, but I doubt if they will help.
When he got to the overalls I watched his face but saw no sign that he had noticed anything, and I swiveled and reached to the rack of phone books for the Manhattan Yellow Pages, formerly the Red Book.
Wolfe had turned his chair and was holding the overalls up to get the full light, and in his other hand was his biggest magnifying glass.
Naturally he couldn't see why the question, had those buttons been put on those overalls by Resnick & Spiro?
I thanked him, stuffed the overalls back in the paper bag, and departed.
A little old geezer with big ears and a mop of white hair, sitting at a table looking at a portfolio, didn't look up until I was beside him and had the overalls out of the bag, and when his eyes moved they lit on one of the buttons.
He jerked the overalls out of my hands, squinted at each of the buttons in turn, the two on the bib and the two at the sides, raised his eyes to me, and demanded, Where did these buttons come from?
In connection with a case I'm working on I need to know where those overalls came from.
I told him his guess was as good as mine, say one chance in ten that she really had it, and when I said I might as well leave sooner and get the overalls from Hirsh and have them with me, he approved.
At the Hirsh Laboratories, deciding it would be better not to display the overalls, I had cut off one of the buttons, one of the three still intact.
What he got was the button I had removed from the overalls and a firm promise to tell him the source when circumstances permitted.
It didn't prove that she had never had a baby, or that she had had no hand in dumping one in Lucy Valdon's vestibule, but it did prove that even if she had done the dumping herself, she hadn't known that the baby was wearing blue corduroy overalls with white horsehair buttons, which seemed very unlikely.
When I got out I left the paper bag with the overalls in the glove compartment.
It had been quite possible, even probable, that the buttons on the overalls were some she had given to somebody, maybe years ago, but not now.