Meanings
plural boiler suits · alternative boilersuit
- A one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour.
The boiler suit was the kind with stud-fasteners rather than a zip.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 191 more example
Where Babcock has proprietary technologies, they will be preserved and developed, in so far as they help to give the company an edge over its rivals. But make no mistake, if Parker and Salmon have their way, boiler suits are the workwear of yesteryear at Babcock. Graduates, not grease-monkeys, are the typical employees of the future.
1994 November 5, Ross Tieman, “Yachtsmen on a long-term voyage to recovery”, in The Times, number 65,104, London, page 25
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour.
Origin
Translations
Catalan granota
- granotaone-piece suit
Czech kombinéza
- kombinézaone-piece suit
Finnish haalari, haalarit
- haalarione-piece suit
- haalaritone-piece suit
French combinaison
- combinaisonone-piece suit
German Arbeitsoverall, Einteiler
- Arbeitsoverallone-piece suit
- Einteilerone-piece suit
Hungarian overall, kezeslábas
- overallone-piece suit
- kezeslábasone-piece suit
- munkásruhaone-piece suit
Italian tuta
- tutaone-piece suit
Polish kombinezon
- kombinezonone-piece suit
Russian ро́ба, комбинезо́н
- ро́ба (róba)one-piece suit
- комбинезо́н (kombinezón)one-piece suit
Spanish mono
- monoone-piece suit
Swedish arbetsoverall, overall
- arbetsoverallone-piece suit
- overallone-piece suit
Cite this entry
boiler suit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boiler%20suit
“boiler suit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boiler%20suit. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boiler suit,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boiler%20suit.
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