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  • noun Plural form of jumpsuit.

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Examples

  • Followed by 500 young stone faced hispanic males in jumpsuits with La Raza (or LA Raza, even better) shoulder patches marching along with them, carrying Kalashnikovs and crossed bandoleros.

    Think Progress » Gun Advocates Plan DC March On 15th Anniversary Of Oklahoma City Bombing 2010

  • The place feels like the set of an early James Bond movie, with men in jumpsuits driving little electric vans from one brightly lit cavern to another.

    Excerpt: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser 2001

  • On Friday February 8th at 8pm, we’re hosting the first-ever competition for the new sport of Cabling (aka competitive cable untangling), founded by Steven Schkolne, and featuring interns in jumpsuits, a discussion of knot theory, three rounds of untangling various extension and A/V cords, and pretzels.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • In addition to satisfying any mobile phallic curiosity you may harbor, Beyond Reanimator also fulfills your Recommended Daily Allowance ™ of slutty nurses with visible granny panty-lines, orange-foam vomit, needles-the-size-of-railroad-spikes loaded with glowing green goo, the odd heaving nipple being bitten off, and nerdy mad scientists in jumpsuits.

    Beyond Reanimator dtaylor 2004

  • They've got these almost like paper, or some kind of jumpsuits on, their heads covered.

    CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2005 2005

  • ASOS Africa will offer contemporary silhouettes such as jumpsuits, playsuits, blazers and cropped trousers all re-worked using African kangas - the vivid printed cottons traditionally worn throughout Eastern Africa - as well as handmade leather accessories.

    Press Release 2010

  • Several of those arrested went directly into blue gauzy jumpsuits, meaning they were parole violators and were going to be shipped right back to prison at Chino.

    Ron's Log 2009

  • In a largely abandoned residential neighborhood near the coastal inlet city of Kamaishi, one of the cities most damaged by the tsunami, SDF soldiers wore full-body jumpsuits to sift through the shells of destroyed homes and spray insecticide on the piles of debris.

    Japan Military Targets New Enemy: Flies Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011

  • Tupperware was compared, bought, and sold by way of canapes, and they informed each other about who was having the best sale on floral jumpsuits made by the polyester designers this week .

    Martini Business Jack Varnell 2011

  • Dressed in bright red jumpsuits, these volunteers moved in a tight formation that looked like a gigantic snake, along the trails of Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City.

    Edward Goldman: He Sold Us Sharks, Diamonds and Spots. Brooklyn Bridge Next? Edward Goldman 2012

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