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The word 'overalls' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of garment, typically worn for manual labor. Example sentence: I always wear my overalls when I'm working in the garden.
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overalls
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Plural of overall
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Some, like Dwayne Harms of Anamosa, Iowa, who wore a leather jacket over overalls and a hat stating he was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, hadn't realized the event had any political affiliations.
It is packed to bursting every lunchtime with a noisy mix of workers in overalls, students from the nearby architecture faculty and curious tourists; you can sit inside the cosy oak-beamed dining room or grab a waterside table and watch boats pass by on the busy Canale di Cannaregio.
Now, Ghostbusters is an obvious choice for a party of, say, six females (overalls from B&Q, backpacks and one person wearing glasses covers the basics) but then there are two of you to fight out who goes as Slimer and who gets Janine.
Within half an hour, Pooley emerges from the ward drenched in sweat that has built up inside his protective overalls, mask and goggles.
Many wore bulging blue overalls that concealed body armour.
He hung up his suit, got out his driving licence, put on some overalls and a pair of steel-toe-capped boots and went straight to work.
To the prefabricated canteen, the showers, the woodyard, to the stores where I undertook my three weeks of probationary training and where I used to sit at break-times opposite two grey-haired storemen in brown overalls; me reading the Guardian and NME, them reading their Gay UK, hidden behind copies of the Sun.
Grey-suited delegates in the corridors of the conference halls mingled with activists in Indian headdresses, angry Mexican farmers and gum-boot dancers in orange overalls.
They offer protection at night which is the most dangerous time in Kibera Kibera shacks at nightimeMEN in patched overalls and women in freshly washed blouses walk down a narrow lane just after six in the morning.
So pains have been taken to provide for "interstitial spaces" or airlocks between works.The public will enter the gallery through a vaulted, trapezoidal lobby, cut into the hillside, to be greeted by an enormous light box showing Jeff Wall's "Untangling", a mesmerising image of a man in overalls amid tangled ropes and machines in a boat-shed.
As he ate with his fellow-workers in the greasy spoon, enjoying their competitive talk of growing leeks and selling scrap, he realised that under the industrial overalls lurked canny capitalist peasants.
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