Long-john

Quick meaning: Long-john is a noun meaning (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to long johns (the undergarment).

Meaning

(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to long johns (the undergarment).

Example Sentences

While lying down, she wriggled into wool long-john top and bottoms.

You open your first aid belt, take out a seam ripper, and expertly open the seam of the left pant leg to the knee. Then you open the seam of the left long-john leg to the knee.

Bloody to the elbows from gutting it, sweat pouring down his joy-reddened face, stripped down to his long-john top despite the twenty-degree cold, he had dragged the deer down from the top of Widdershins where he’d shot it three hours earlier.

Word Forms

• longjohn

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trouser, boxers, briefs, shorts.

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