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- adjective Describing someone as being a
blue-collar employee, an hourly worker.
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Examples
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Perry has a rugged face and a tooled belt, campaigning tieless in a blue-collared shirt and black ostrich leather shoes.
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I'm just a blue-collared guy trying to make a living on the beach.
Reflections from the Gulf of Mexico Leslie Tamura 2010
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As domestic and Japanese sports cars have a strong hold on blue-collared car enthusiasts, and luxurious convertibles have a considerable following among affluent women, so do the minivans in capturing the market of young mothers with growing families.
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And more often than not, they would lose to the fearsome squad of immigrants and blue-collared New Yorkers who ran faster and threw as far as anyone.
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Brian, what does that mean to you - blue-collared soul?
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To ALL!!! those white harworking blue-collared americans that just LOVE Mrs Clinton and for overt reasons say that you will never vote for Obama, google "Hillary Clinton Screw 'em" and see what you candidate thought of you when she felt you had shorted here husband.
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Lead singer Brian Fallon has described the band's sound as blue-collared soul.
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Scranton, thick with blue-collared white workers, is her stronghold in Pennsylvania – if she loses it she loses the state.
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Or do you just enjoy having your hands around blue-collared throats?
Art Levine: Is the GOP Risking the Economy to Win the PR War Against Unions? 2009
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Lots of rap acts, including Public Enemy, Mos Def and Rah Digga, have sung out about the Amadou Diallo shooting, but when working-class hero Bruce Springsteen tried it, some of his especially blue-collared fans felt betrayed.
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