union suit Meaning of "union suit"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) an undergarment with shirt and drawers in one piece

Usage(s):

  1. At 20th century masquerade parties and in subway headache ads, the Devil generally wears a red union suit and wields a large pitchfork.
  2. Mifflin, in a porous-knit union suit from Franklin Simon's street floor, is stretched out by the fire like a great, tawny cat.
  3. It was discovered that the Poles had all bought their fake passports from a combine which gave away, as a premium with each purchase, a new union suit.
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