Meanings
adjectiveovercoated (not comparable)
- not comparableWearing an overcoat.
He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity[…]
1892, Ambrose Bierce, The Applicant1 more example
These bare, unworked facts evoke a scene right out of Hemingway, the overcoated wiseguy with the heater, the boy and the cook cowering in the kitchen (Another bright boy.
2007 November 18, Rich Cohen, “Wiseguys”, in New York Times
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of overcoat
Origin
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