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turtle-necks

n. (turtle-neck English)

Usage examples of "turtle-necks".

Army surplus turtle-necks, two really beat-up khaki bush jackets with crunched airline tickets and parking lot stubs in the pockets.

She jerked open a drawer and found a single pair of blue jeans (artificially whitened with bleach, a process that was no longer stylish) and below them two turtle-necks from last winter and below those a pair of maternity slacks with an elastic panel in front.

The room is meant to look like business premises, but there are too many piles of dusty typescripts on a side table, too many unsightly photographs of authors (men scruffy and dishevelled, in turtle-necks and jeans, women, many of decidedly unattracĀ­tive mien, wearing huge spectacles, some holding cats), too much literary mess and too powerful a stench of good, but pungent, cigars.