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union suit

noun

  1. a close-fitting, knitted undergarment combining shirt and drawers in one piece and often having a drop seat.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of union suit1

First recorded in 1890–95
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It sure beats racing through the yard on a cold night, trying to wiggle out of a scratchy union suit just to use the spider-infested outhouse in the pitch-black dark.

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Better yet, women could ditch the corset entirely in favor of one-piece union suits.

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Grandpa walked over to the washstand and poured some water into the big flowerdy bowl, but I just pulled off down to my union suit and turned back the covers.

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Copp may be the reason that my wife and her siblings and both our children have always had good vocabularies: destitute, vituperative, locality, inauspicious, gauche, megalomaniac, union suit.

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Milt would slip into his black union suit, cape, mask, and emerge ready to battle upperclass bullies—Thwack!

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