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• n  civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform

• civies

News & Articles

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• Man of Steel: Super Man … or Human God?
  Being Superman was so cool; that’s what decades of comics-reading boys thought. Outracing a locomotive, bending steel like licorice, leaping tall buildings, flying around saving people and sneaking into phone booths to slip out of your civvies and into your form-fitting red-and-blue outfit, with a cape as a manly fashion flourish. Sure, Lois Lane, the cutie-pie on the school newspaper, pretends ...
  June 12, 2013 - Time Magazine

Quotes

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• John Coates in Kings County Record
  I certainly don't think we should go downtown in civvies,Coates said.
• John Sentamu in Daily Mail
  Dr Sentamu said he had been given a Yorkie bar before the jump which had the line on it: "Not for civvies."