clam-diggers

A form of clamdiggers — Waders; rubber pants (including oversized boots) worn when wading in shallow water, especially when digging for clams with a clam rake.

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Meanings

nounclam-diggers pl (plural only)
  1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of clamdiggers.

    She pulled on her clam-diggers and shirt and ran downstairs.

    1955, Mary Sellars, “Bittersweet”, in George E. Murphy, Helen Rand Miller, Thomas J. Quinn, Let’s Read! Book 4, The Bronze Book: Reading for Life, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, Unit 4 (Families Are Important: Understanding Words), page 246
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    She was about to drop the key in the pocket of her clam-diggers when he said, “Put it in my pocket. If you start turning cartwheels or something, you may lose it.”

    1988 November, Patt Bucheister, chapter 6, in Time Out (Loveswept; 292), Toronto, Ont.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 97

    Her clam-diggers protected her legs from the wind, but the Berkeley tee under her sweater was feeling nearly thread-bare.

    2009, Patricia Adams Farmer, chapter 16, in The Metaphor Maker, Estrella de Mar Publications, published 2010, →ISBN, page 190
noun
  1. pluralplural of clam-digger
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