unblouse

present singular third person unblouses · participle present unblousing · participle past unbloused · past unbloused

1. governmentTo untuck (leggings from footwear); to make (pants or trousers) unrestricted or untightened at the ankle, often as a sign of rank or service.

   Some straight legs caught a trooper at the post exchange (PX) one day and made him unblouse his boots.

   2002, Jack Allsup, Mountains of Hope, page 50

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   "Alright men. Lay your ponchos out on the ground and take everything out of your rucksacks. Empty your pockets, too. Everything goes on the poncho. Hurry up! We haven't got all day. "You, Parker! Unblouse those boots. Do it! What's all this shit? Cans of Spam. Tuna fish. Nice try, Asshole. Okay, everybody. Unblouse those boots."

   2003, Edward F. Fitzgerald, Bank's Bandits, page 162

   Not only were the soldiers not allowed to tell anyone what was happening, but they had to remove their shoulder patches and the airborne patches from their hats, take off their jump wings, and unblouse their trousers to hide their jump boots.

   2004, Ed Ruggero, Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault Into Fortress Europe, July 1943, page 89

   In front of the entire regiment, the condemned trooper was forced to unblouse his trousers, remove his airborne boots, and replace them with regular shoes.

   2006, Major Richard D. Winters, Beyond Band of Brothers, page 37

2. intransitivetransitiveTo remove one's blouse (from).

   Unblouse yourself and be getting your clothes off.

   2001, Dario Fo, Franca Rame, We won't pay! We won't pay! and other plays: the collected plays of Dario Fo, page 173

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   Am I awfully sunburnt? Miss Bronze unbloused her neck.

   1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

   The thin little man with a sharp face straw hat and cane told it in a patter, his voice almost too scratchy to hear in the littered theater rustling and seething with impatience, not much of a crowd to say the least waiting for blowsy Venus to unblouse who had something to show (beside whom Hecuba would have looked like a svelte dryad), valiantly pretending he had the house in his hand as he took expert pratfalls, though in truth all but a decibel or two of the noise that could be identified as response was provided by the two-piece orchestra the straightman and himself.

   2015, Jonathan Bayliss, Prologo, →ISBN