Meanings
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of clamdiggers.
Her small frame, clothed in clam diggers and a plain white tee, added to the illusion Janelle held a girl, not a woman.
2019, Mandy Mikulencak, chapter 3, in Forgiveness Road, John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 322 more examples
Medium height and a figure that was well-molded except for the dragging left leg that had been attacked by polio on just such a summer day three years ago. Her clam diggers camouflaged her almost to normalcy.
1950 July, Helen Gregutt, “Victory”, in Esther R. Bien, editor, The American Girl, New York, N.Y.: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6My only consolation was that Sasha’s move inspired me to design a line of travel clothes—plaid clam diggers with a matching plaid circle hat box—which ran in the Spring Previews issue of Katy Keene.
1987, Linda Sunshine, “Best Friends and Barbie Dolls”, in The Memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing Up in New Jersey (A Fireside Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 44
- pluralplural of clam digger
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