Definitions

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  • adjective devoid of gloves. Oposite of gloved.

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  • adjective Without gloves

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  • adjective devoid of gloves

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Examples

  • I got to say I prefer detachable mags, carrying extra mags beats carrying extra loose ammo and then having to stuff said ammo into the gun wearing bulky gloves. (gets near zero here in deer season, you don't go gloveless)

    Why I Hate Detachable Magazines 2009

  • I got to say I prefer detachable mags, carrying extra mags beats carrying extra loose ammo and then having to stuff said ammo into the gun wearing bulky gloves. (gets near zero here in deer season, you don't go gloveless)

    Why I Hate Detachable Magazines 2009

  • However, since when was Freddy left handed and gloveless?

    POTD: Burger King’s Horror-Themed Late Night Advertisements | /Film 2010

  • She could only imagine what she looked like with her dirt-streaked face, muddy dress, and gloveless hands.

    The Lost Children Carolyn Cohagan 2010

  • She could only imagine what she looked like with her dirt-streaked face, muddy dress, and gloveless hands.

    The Lost Children Carolyn Cohagan 2010

  • If any place can serve as an instant gauge of how the oil spill has altered Louisiana's seafood industry, it is New Orleans, where servers shuck oysters by hand, gloveless and confident.

    Louisiana finds replacements on menu for seafood favorites affected by oil spill 2010

  • If any place can serve as an instant gauge of how the oil spill has altered Louisiana's seafood industry, it is New Orleans, where servers shuck oysters by hand, gloveless and confident.

    Louisiana finds replacements on menu for seafood favorites affected by oil spill 2010

  • The gloveless hand holding the laptop was soon ice cold.

    Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010

  • If you attempt to ride in 40F temps gloveless and decked out in your "summer kit" dainty tightslike Mr. Parlee, you'll most certainly get cold.

    Posable Figures: Playing With Yourself BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • It's a bit late in the day to do much about the physical things like the ACES design, or even the lack of head protection within the helmets, but surely a hard look could be taken even now at the crew procedures which allowed astronauts not to be properly strapped in (let alone gloveless).

    Columbia Report Issued - NASA Watch 2008

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