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blue-collar

adj

Etymology

From blue + collar. From the color of rugged denim and chambray work shirts often worn by manual workers, as opposed to the white dress shirts typically worn by professionals and clerical workers.

  1. derived from collāris
  2. derived from collāre
  3. derived from coler
  4. inherited from coler
  5. compounded as blue-collar — “blue + collar”

Definitions

  1. Working class

    Working class; engaged or trained in essentially manual labor.

    • Blue-collar workers represent a diminishing segment of society.
    • The blue-collar, vulnerable McClane of Die Hard wouldn’t even recognize the bulletproof, catchphrase-spouting superhero he’s become in the sequels.

  2. Pertaining to the culture of blue-collar workers.

    • Even as a tenured professor, she remained proud of her blue-collar values.

  3. A blue-collar worker.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at blue-collar. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at blue-collar. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at blue-collar

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA