plate-carrier

noun

A kind of bulletproof vest.

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Meanings

nounplate-carrier (plural plate-carriers)

plural plate-carriers

  1. A kind of bulletproof vest.
  2. historicalartsA thin black frame used to hold a photographic plate in early cameras.

    The cases of ammunition and of food were scattered about in a wild litter, together with our unfortunate cameras and plate-carriers, but none of them were missing.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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APA

plate-carrier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plate-carrier

MLA

“plate-carrier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plate-carrier. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plate-carrier,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plate-carrier.

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