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  • adjective Of or pertaining to working-class professions that do not involve significant manual labor, such as skilled technical professions, combining elements of blue-collar and white-collar.

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From gray and collar by extension of white-collar and blue-collar, perhaps with gray being seen as intermediate between white and blue.

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