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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
romper

1842, agent noun from romp (v.). Rompers "small children's overalls" first recorded 1909, on model of trousers.

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romper

Etymology 1 n. 1 Someone who romps or frolics. 2 (context nautical English) A ship that has moved far ahead of a convoy; see also straggler. Etymology 2

n. onesie Etymology 3

vb. (cx Ireland historical transitive English) To abduct (a victim) to a room where they are tortured and murdered.

WordNet
romper
  1. n. a person who romps or frolics

  2. a one-piece garment for children to wear at play; the lower part is shaped like bloomers [syn: rompers, romper suit]

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Usage examples of "romper".

It was evident that he had not been travelling with the Real Razmataz Rompers.

He had grinned and then seen his grin reflected in the glass door of the Rif, the back of a fat woman in black rompers making a temporary mirror-back.

There was once a ballet dancer who, in Budapest, Vienna, and Copenhagen, was knitting rompers and jackets for a baby that had long lain buried at the edge of Oliva Forest, weighted down with stones.

The pebbled beach is crowded with families: shoeless fathers in lounge suits and high white collars, mothers in blouses and skirts startled out of war-long camphor sleep, kids running all over in sunsuits, nappies, rompers, short pants, knee socks, Eton hats.

And in the middle of February she announced, apart from the completion of the third pair of rompers and the second jacket, the death of Papa Brunies.

There was once a ballet dancer who, in Budapest, Vienna, and Copenhagen, was knitting rompers and jackets for a baby that had long lain buried at the edge of Oliva Forest, weighted down with stones.

Suddenly feeling much stranger I stopped an old hardhat in his rompers of municipal blue.

I must look, him in his sneakers and strontium rompers and flyaway hair, me with my butch suit, thin jekylls and proud-rounded shoes.

Kewpie dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, Raggedy Ann, and numerous other varieties, both old and new, some more than three feet tall, some smaller than a milk carton, were dressed in diapers, snowsuits, elaborate bridal dresses, checkered rompers, cowboy outfits, tennis togs, pajamas, hula skirts, kimonos, clown suits, overalls, nighties, and sailor suits.

Peaked caps, pea jackets, Royal Navy battledresses, now romper suits for the grown upa touch of silliness that Alex found an endearing characteristic.

The men are plump clunkers in pastel romper gear, smiling, plodding, nodding.

It is true that on clear days, when the great trans-continental expresses, long lines of swaying Pullmans, swept through Fort Romper, passengers were overcome at the sight, and the cult that knows the brown-reds and the subdivisions of the dark greens of the East expressed shame, pity, horror, in a laugh.

No tienen bardos o trovadores, pero cada uno de los hombres de la tribu se sabe las baladas populares de su propio clan, y, después de algunas jarras de cerveza, son muy dados a ponerse a berrear a unos niveles capaces de romper los tímpanos.

Darla Hawthorne was dancing around on a shaded court in a candy-pink romper with a flippy skirt.